Sottovento Horse Quotes & Sayings

The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible. — Michael Flynn

I remember meeting the princesses at Disney World and getting their autographs. — Lily James

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius. — Ron Chernow

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. — Wallace Stevens

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did. — Lisa Kleypas

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. — Woodrow Wilson

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war. — Barack Obama

But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them. Hence the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative; then become evaluative, while still retaining some hint of the sort of goodness or badness implied; and to end up by being purely evaluative
useless synonyms for good or for bad. — C.S. Lewis

Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye, a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys, if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality. — Henry David Thoreau

You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. — Henry Miller

The river - with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing shadows o'er the shallows, flinging diamonds from the mill-wheels, throwing kisses to the lilies, wantoning with the weirs' white waters, silvering moss-grown walls and bridges, brightening every tiny townlet, making sweet each lane and meadow, lying tangled in the rushes, peeping, laughing, from each inlet, gleaming gay on many a far sail, making soft the air with glory - is a golden fairy stream. — Jerome K. Jerome

In times of trouble, may the Lord keep you safe. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition. — Samuel Johnson

Good or bad is created by humans and pertains only to them. — Jeff Tikari

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision. — Abraham Lincoln