Thungrim Firegaze Quotes & Sayings

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. — Cornelia Funke

and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His — Jonathan Swift

There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory ... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering ... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion. — Sarah Fielding

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world. — Ian McEwan

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it. — Virginia Woolf

When the number of children goes over one, God becomes miserly in granting intelligence; he takes it from the living child and gives it to the child to be born. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person. — George W. Bush

The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes mask. But, above all, he was sensitive and looked out for those he loved. — Jennifer Grant

Bible scholars estimate that there were about 2.5 million Israelites who left Egypt healed, healthy and whole. That was and still is God's will for His people today - all healed, healthy and whole. — Joseph Prince