Tempestine Quotes & Sayings

How young he was when he made the surprisingly adult resolution to escape from the unpalatable reality of dreams into the slightly more acceptable illusions of his everyday, walking life! — Salman Rushdie

Hope is not a strategy - Traditional SRE saying — Various

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years. — Donna Leon

To give is to receive ... — Gerald Jampolsky

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced. — Dean Acheson

Too beautiful for a drifter like me. You deserve a man who can buy you pretty dresses and take you dancing every week. But I'm damned glad it's me you're with tonight, me who'll be taking you home. — Charlene Raddon

As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications. — Brian Sandoval

This takes me a couple minutes to absorb. He lets me have them. He picks up one of the computer printouts and holds it in front of me. There's a lot of numbers and squiggly lines and strange symbols that mean absolutely nothing to me. "I don't expect you to be able to read it," he says. "But would you like to guess what this is?" "That's all it would be, sir," I answer. "A guess. — Rick Yancey

Today I will fly in the peaceful blue sky with a flight of doves. — Debasish Mridha

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. — Saul Bellow