Trevisan Spa Quotes & Sayings

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea. — Shunryu Suzuki

We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the area where we lived and we used to play soccer there. That was where they used to hold public executions for soldiers who deserted the army and members of the Kurdish resistance. — Hassan Blasim

[Rakel] It feels a bit like jumping out of a burning house. Falling is better than burning.
[Harry] At least until you land.
[Rakel] I've come to realize that falling and living have certain things in common. For a start, both are very temporary states of being. — Jo Nesbo

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. — Arlene Croce

Whoa, boss! Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade. I don't wanna be a horse-ke-bob! — Rick Riordan

This was all very well: Columbanus's success indicates the appeal of his mission. But his activities, for the first time, brought the nature of Celtic monasticism firmly to the attention of the Church authorities
to western bishops in general, and to the Bishop of Rome in particular. The Irish monks were not heretical. But they were plainly unorthodox. They did not look right, to begin with. They had the wrong tonsure. Rome, as was natural, had 'the tonsure of St Peter', that is, a shaven crown. Easterners had the tonsure of St Paul, totally shaven; and if they wished to take up an appointment in the West they had to wait until their rim grew before being invested. But the Celts looked like nothing on earth: they had their hair long at the back and, on the shaven front part, a half-circle of hair from one ear to the other, leaving a band across the forehead. — Paul Johnson

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. — Walt Whitman

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies. — Billy Graham

Whatever happened is water under the bridge. Burn the damn bridge and forget the past, he whispered. — Carolyn Brown

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair. — Margaret Turnbull

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age. — Ann Brashares

You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you. — Armistead Maupin

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. — Doris Kearns Goodwin