Unrolled Scroll Quotes & Sayings

There in the mountains, close to the delights of Nature, everything you see and hear is a joy. It is a joy unspoiled by any real discomfort. Your legs may possibly ache, or you may feel the lack of something really good to eat, but that is all. I wonder why this should be? I suppose the reason is that, looking at the landscape, it is as though you were looking at a picture unrolled before you, or reading a poem on a scroll. The whole area is yours [...]. You are free from any care or worry because you accept the fact that this scenery will help neither to fill your belly, nor add a penny to your salary, and are content to enjoy it just as scenery. This is the great charm of Nature, that it can in an instant discipline men's hearts and minds, and removing all that is base, lead them into the pure unsullied world of poetry. — Soseki Natsume

Cold fingers walked down Arya's neck. Fear cuts deeper than swords, she reminded herself. — George R R Martin

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me. — James Green Somerville

Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
(Exchange with Winston Churchill) — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller. — George Ratliff

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. — Alice Freeman Palmer

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. — Paul Wolfowitz

And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same. — David Foster Wallace

Come on let's see the degree."
Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art.
"Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read " Katherine joked.
"And to officially declare you have talent " Suzy returned. — E.A. Bucchianeri

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving. — Dave Eggers

Gods plan isn't a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time. — Rick Warren

Human existence is an error ... it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. — James A. Garfield

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848. — Jorge Ramos