Zvaigznes Quotes & Sayings

We must defend ourselves according to our opponents' ability, not their intentions. — Koushun Takami

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can't get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That's what you can't get here. — Lauren DeStefano

It is the work and not the reward that is precious. — Leo Tolstoy

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion. — Clarice Lispector

Surely revival delays because prayer decays. — Leonard Ravenhill

I say no when I should say yes. I say yes when I should say no. I stumble into holy moments not realizing where I am until they are over. I love poorly, then accidently say the right thing at the right moment without even realizing it, then forget what matters, then show tenderness when it's needed, and then turn around and think of myself way too often. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

But don't pull me down or strangle me, he replied: for the Misses Eshton were clinging about him now; and the two dowagers, in vast white wrappers, were bearing down on him like ships in full sail. — Charlotte Bronte

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice. — Noam Chomsky

While Ross and Cockburn were hastily burning the White House and Department buildings, anxious only to escape, and never sending more than two hundred soldiers beyond Capitol Square, the President, his Cabinet, his generals, and his army were performing movements at which even the American people, though outraged and exasperated beyond endurance, could not but laugh. — Henry Adams

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union. — Jefferson Davis

No wires tender even as nerves
can transmit the impact of
our seasons, our catastrophes
while we are closed inside them — Margaret Atwood

Maybe there's something you're afraid to say or someone you're afraid to love or somewhere you're afraid to go — John Green

I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming. — F Scott Fitzgerald