Torcello Queen Quotes & Sayings

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. — Benjamin Jowett

In these considerations there may be an entire philosophy for someone with the strength to draw conclusions. It won't be me. Lucid vague thoughts and logical possibilities occur to me, but they all dim in the vision of a ray of sunlight that gilds a pile of dung like wetly squished dark straw, on the almost black soil next to a stone wall.

That's how I am. When I want to think, I look. When I want to descend into my soul, I suddenly freeze, oblivious, at the top of the long spiral staircase, looking through the upper-storey window at the sun that bathes the sprawling mass of rooftops in a tawny farewell. — Fernando Pessoa

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that's the thing - you're a couple, and couples can't function without trust. — Nicholas Sparks

There had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her e-mails and would still snuggle up to her to be petted when they were in the mood, but they were men, and though they would always be at the center of her life, she was no longer at the center of theirs. — Cathleen Schine

I'm pretty sure I'm a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I'm a trannie; I'm a man. — Megan Fox

The burning flame is a spirit of light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry. — Paul Heyse

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day. — Nicholas Sparks

The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times. — Richard Rohr

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Unfortunately, our minds are our greatest assets, and our biggest flaws. — Justine Winter

Someday I would really love to do a talk show. That's something I've always been interested in. I like to talk, and I love to help people. — Keke Palmer