Underground And Belvedere Quotes & Sayings

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. — Jimenez Lai

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light. — Rumi

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions. — Henry Ward Beecher

God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.a — Anonymous

If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers. — Sahara Sanders

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful. — Aerin Lauder

Without training, they lacked knowledge.
Without knowledge, they lacked confidence.
Without confidence, they lacked victory. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life. — Simone Elkeles

It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it. — Debasish Mridha

You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one! — Scott Lynch

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie. — Thomas Brooks

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is. — Iris Murdoch

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels. — Ambrose Bierce

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere
from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water. — Daniel Taylor