Velluto Nero Quotes & Sayings

He sat down in a corner and ordered half a pound of dumplings, which came in a white bowl with a blue rim. While he was eating, his memory was further revived and sharpened by the familiar taste of the stuffing, made of pork, leeks, cabbage, dried shrimp, ginger, sesame oil. Every bit of the memory became unmistakable now. — Ha Jin

But there is another change coming for you and me down the road. Are we ready for this? There will come a day - sooner or later - when God will say, "Your time is up." We all have to die. What is more, everything that we are doing in this life should be getting us ready for that day. So I am now going to ask you: Do you know for sure that if you were to die today, you would go to heaven? It is the most important question anybody can — R.T. Kendall

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that. — Anthony Doerr

The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others don't have. — J.K. Rowling

Take off the dress. — Samantha Young

Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living. — Rick Smolan

The false starts and futilities of the past years proved themselves to be groundwork, foundations, laid in the dark but well laid. — Ursuala K. Le Guin

Discovering your personal promised land may not be an easy task — Sunday Adelaja

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. — Havelock Ellis

I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little. — David Letterman

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there. — Mercedes Lackey