Somacescu Quotes & Sayings

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same. — J.B. MacKinnon

Something in those jittery black-and-golden scraps recalled her sight's desire. So it always went, with life and its paler imitations. — Richard Powers

And the moral of this story is?" asked Amber, and immediately regretted it because it didn't sound tough and bored at all, just snotty. "That everything looks small on paper," Meoraq replied. "But in Gann's world, shit happens." The — R. Lee Smith

Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit. — Maureen Johnson

I don't know. I only think the Austrians will not stop when they have won a victory. It is in defeat that we become Christian."
"The Austrians are Christians
except for the Bosnians."
"I don't mean technically Christian. I mean like Our Lord."
He said nothing.
"We are all gentler now because we are beaten. How would our Lord have been f Peter had rescued him in the Garden? — Ernest Hemingway,

The only difference between someone who folds in the face of adversity and someone who doesn't, is if the person interprets the challenges they face as either threats, or opportunities. Help — The Mindset Warrior

the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, between 5,000 and 10,000 Protestants were slaughtered in less than twenty-four hours. When the pope in Rome heard the news from France, he was so overcome by joy that he organised festive prayers to celebrate the occasion and commissioned Giorgio Vasari to decorate one of the Vatican's rooms with a fresco of the massacre (the room is currently off-limits to visitors).2 More Christians were killed by fellow Christians in those twenty-four hours than by the polytheistic Roman Empire throughout its entire existence. — Yuval Noah Harari

One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give. — Frederick Lenz

Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort. — Georgia Salpa

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out. — Aaron Levie

Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing. Onstage, I do a little smokier, a little more contouring, but I still always want to be an approachable and real artist, so I never try to go overboard. — Kelsea Ballerini

Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston. — Thomas Menino

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others. — Randy Jackson

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. — Katherine Anne Porter

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical. — Richard Griffiths