Tranquil Settings Quotes & Sayings

Call it a character flaw
when under attack, I counter attack. Always. — Richard Marcinko

Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right — Ravi Zacharias

So in the end, what is a moment? One action? A single deed? Or is it more? Is a moment like a school of silver fish? The sum of many singular parts forming one cohesive unit? I tend to think so. Because the moment I met Ryan, that was just one of the sum parts. — Marie Hall

God's faithfulness is proved not by the elimination of hardships but by carrying us through them. Change is not the absence of struggles; change is the freedom to choose holiness in the midst of our struggles. I realized that the ultimate issue has to be that I yearn after God in total surrender and complete obedience. — Christopher Yuan

Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive. — Ronald Graham

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote. — Susan Jane Gilman

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. — Goldwin Smith

She's Love, she loves, and yet she is not lov'd. — William Shakespeare

Whether you get hurt by weapons or feelings, it hurts when you get shot in the heart. — Hui-bin Jang

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another. — Jane Yolen

You don't know how to fight. You just leave it up to me. — Norah Olson

In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

If you don't give up, you will win. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever."
Octavian read the scroll. "This says, 'Go to Alaska. Find Thanatos and free him. Come back by sundown on June twenty-fourth or die'."
"Yes," Mars said. "Is that not clear?"
"Well, my lord...usually prophecies are unclear. They're wrapped in riddles. They rhyme, and..."
Mars casually popped another grenade off his belt. "Yes?"
"The prophecy is clear!" Octavian announced. "A quest! — Rick Riordan

It seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless however nice they might be. — Franz Kafka