Vinnikov Inna Quotes & Sayings

THE RAINS had come, the rains had gone, and the sun was back on its throne like an absolute monarch kept off it for a week by his subjects' barricades, and now reigning once again, choleric but under constitutional restraint. The heat braced without burning, the light domineered but let colors live; from the soil cautiously sprouted clover and mint, and on faces appeared diffident hopes. "Il Gattopardo. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.
[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Paraded around town in an elephant cage, an elephant who repeatedly pulled her stake and stole the lemonade, — Sara Gruen

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Don't squat with your spurs on."--Unknown — Teresa Burrell

There are brains so smart in finance and unconsciously reject wealth. — Toba Beta

His penmanship was shamefully crabbed. Each sentence was a crowded village of capital letters and small letters, living side by side in tight misery, crawling up on one another as though trying to escape the page. His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories. — Karen Russell

This, of course, is the crux. It doesn't really matter what the language is, only whether there's a transcendent moral grammar underpinning it. No one really cares what hell's called or who runs it. They just don't want to go there. — Glen Duncan

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible. — T.D. Jakes

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself. — David Brooks