Transylvanian Saxons Quotes & Sayings

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman. — Maureen O'Hara

The final result wouldn't be decided by the presidents or within the mighty kingdoms or the great capitals of the world. It was the ordinary people that had the power to save the world. — Chris Stewart

I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage. To thwart the biologist in me, to frustrate the logic left in me. — Jeff VanderMeer

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel. — William Hazlitt

They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had. — Fred Larson

Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our true selves... of the good and the evil and those wavering somewhere in between. But they have the ultimate power to destroy all that we cherish most. — Emily Thorne

Plants are not like us. They are different in critical and fundamental ways. As I catalog the differences between plants and animals, the horizon stretches out before me faster than I can travel and forces me to acknowledge that perhaps I was destined to study plants for decades only in order to more fully appreciate that they are beings we can never truly understand. Only when we begin to grasp this deep otherness can we be sure we are no longer projecting ourselves onto plants. Finally we can begin to recognize what is actually happening.

Our world is falling apart quietly. Human civilization has reduced the plant, a four-million-year-old life form, into three things: food, medicine, and wood... — Hope Jahren

Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil. — Pope Francis

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret. — Barry Lopez

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. — Kim Campbell

I'm so glad to hear you are a reader, and you found these books to help you work through things on your own. — Paula Gruben

The right kind of listener makes a difference. When someone takes the time to hear us out, something singular happens. By being interested and showing it, the listener becomes part of the tale. — Wendy Lustbader

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata