Somedays A Diamond Quotes & Sayings

An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius — Arturo Perez-Reverte

The leap of faith always means loving without expecting to be loved in return, giving without wanting to receive, inviting without hoping to be invited, holding without asking to be held. And every time I make a little leap, I catch a glimpse of the One who runs out to me and invites me into his joy, the joy in which I can find not only myself, but also my brothers and sisters. Thus the disciplines of trust and gratitude reveal the God who searches for me, burning with desire to take away all my resentments and complaints and to let me sit at his side at the heavenly banquet. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

We're creating a culture where people feel constantly surveilled, where people are afraid to be themselves. — Jon Ronson

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win. — Fernando Alonso

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them. — Queen Latifah

It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding. — Kat Lahr

London had heavy attacks on the sixteenth and seventeenth; over twenty-three hundred people were killed, more than three thousand seriously injured. — Winston S. Churchill

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit — Seneca The Younger

For me the autumn has never been a sad season. The dead leaves and the increasingly shorter days have never suggested the end of anything, but rather an expectation of the future. In paris, there is an electricity in the air in october evenings at nightfall. Even when it is raining. i do not feel low at that hour of the day, nor do i have the sense of time flying by. i have the impression that everything is possible. the year begins in the month of october. — Patrick Modiano