Vallegrandina Quotes & Sayings

What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn? — Isak Dinesen

I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture. - Bella Swan — Stephenie Meyer

The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one. — Robert Breault

Never let fear determine how you see yourself;
And never let your past determine your future. — Connie Kerbs

The minister's voice was a pendulum. Swinging for left and down and right and down and left and-"How can you claim to be my brother, and hate me? Is that Charity? How can you claim to be my sister and despise me? Is that supposed to be Charity? How can you claim to be my friend and misuse and wrongfully abuse me? Is that Charity?...'now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. — Maya Angelou

The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts. — Sabine Baring-Gould

It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one. — Margot Robbie

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London. — Mariella Frostrup

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. — Damian Lewis

Only a fool trys to outsmart smart people, and anyone that trys to fool fools is himself already one.
~William Faulkner~ — William Faulkner

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine — J.R. Ward

So, I'm a playwright. In Minneapolis. Which means that I find myself operating in a pretty lefty crowd, most of the time. And most of my energy goes towards arguing with that, and musing about how I really fucking can't stand Democrats. So I was startled to be reminded of a fact that I'd almost entirely forgotten: I really fucking can't stand Republicans. — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. — Joaquin Miller

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities. — Gary Locke