Vansteenkiste Dimitri Quotes & Sayings

Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free. — Ruta Sepetys

[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability. — Thomm Quackenbush

An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today. — Ralph Martin

Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then, whether you really wanted to or not, you died. — Terry Pratchett

It's what you don't say, I hear the loudest — S.L. Northey

The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth. — John Ruskin

There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry? — Bertolt Brecht

The oppressiveness of twilight filled the world. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Every burned book enlightens the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. — John Tillotson

She hadn't even known they were volcanic, but now they were lobbing big seminal gobbets of lava all over their lower slopes, like a drunk prom queen puking on her dress. Shit was getting geological, yo. — Lev Grossman

We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it. — James Anthony Froude