Sowy Quotes & Sayings

We have then, in the first part of The Faerie Queene, four of the seven deadly sins depicted in the more important passages of the four several books; those sins being much more elaborately and powerfully represented than the virtues, which are opposed to them, and which are personified in the titular heroes of the respective books. The alteration which made these personified virtues the centre each of a book was probably part of the reconstruction on the basis of Aristotle Ethics.
The nature of the debt to Aristotle suggests that Spenser did not borrow directly from the Greek, but by way of modern translations. — Janet Spens

I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups. — Aimee Bender

Besides,in that instant we went plowing through the guardrail, my words died too. — Jennifer Niven

I knew we were together, at least for now. And right then, while I still could, it was exactly where I wanted to be. — Sarah Dessen

Of course, I had met him. I shook his hand, and then my vagina shook his penis. — Addison Moore

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two. — Sonakshi Sinha

My dad used to say that life was like turning the pages in a book. 'Oh, look,' he'd say, pretending to flip the pages in the air after we'd had something bad happen to us. 'Bad luck here on page ninety-seven. And on ninety-eight. But something good here on ninety-nine! All you had to do was keep reading! — Ally Condie

Not everyone can look past an insult and continue to work with the person who slights them — Jean Johnson

If you so much as snicker, I will kill you all. — Robin LaFevers

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy. — Lance Bass

The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story? — Patrick Rothfuss

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. — Ella Maillart

Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. — Saul Alinsky