Velikolepniy Vek Quotes & Sayings

If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds - even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself. — James Hilton

Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan apartment. — Mason Currey

A mother's love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mother have lifted cars off of their children, and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother's love is the strongest energy known to man. You must that love, and it's power. — Jamie McGuire

We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We can see the city and the train line and it's beautiful in its own dangerous way. Dangerous because it's shared and taken and fought for.
That's the best way I can put it, and thinking about it, when I walk past the tiny houses on our street, I wonder about the stories inside them. I wonder hard, because houses must have walls and rooftops for a reason. My only query is the windows. Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out? — Markus Zusak

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves? — Edith Wharton

Where ever you go in is world
This rule always remains the same ...
Kindness Is Everything! — Timothy Pina

Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased? — Mary E. Pearson

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed, ... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God. — Francis Bacon

This is what made a book great, she thought, that you could read it over and over and never get tired of it. — Jeanne Birdsall

The legend of 'The One' had been clear that the connection between a werewolf and his mate could never be denied. The fact that it could be destroyed had never come up in conversation. — Paige Tyler

I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico — Maya Banks

Voltaire," says M. Guizot, "was the first person in France who spoke of Shakespeare's genius; and although he spoke of him merely as a barbarian genius, the French public were of the opinion that he had said too much in his favor. Indeed, they thought it nothing less than profanation to apply the words genius and glory to dramas which they considered as crude as they were coarse. — William Shakespeare