Tasseling Quotes & Sayings

but still the mention of Mrs Burton and her luxuries had a certain stinging and stimulating effect upon her. She scorned, and yet would have been pleased to emulate that splendour. The account of it put her out of patience with her own humility, notwithstanding that she took pride in that humility, and felt it more consistent with the real dignity of her position than any splendour. And — Mrs. Oliphant

Nothing was more nauseating than people who constantly complained about their life, but did nothing about it. — Sonia Farnsworth

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone. — Pope Francis

One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art. — Michael Arndt

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use. — Jose Canseco

Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me. — Anna Kavan

Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims in the world could do. — Nikolai Gogol

...and i will step out of the mirage, into your arms, to lose myself and find myself inside you. — Kamila Shamsie

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album! — Jamie Lynn Spears

We stood
the dead child and the living
on either side of my father, both wanting the same thing. To have him to ourselves forever. To please us both was an impossibility. — Alice Sebold

But if you do not wish to die of thirst in the desert, drink charity. This is the fountain the Lord has willed to place here, lest we faint on the way, and we shall drink it more abundantly when we come to the Fatherland. — Augustine Of Hippo

When the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Time. In another time. Either before or after. They were not stars,
but fires. They were the souls of birds. They were entries into the
vast fire. They were the eyes of the dead. And in the darkness they
were imprisoned by them. — Peter Ackroyd

Slow down. Life is crossing the road. — Debasish Mridha