Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Dan Davis

Our focus must always be on building people up.

James Joyce

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

James Russell Lowell

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

Luc de Clapiers

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

Longchenpa

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

John Clare

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

Lurlene McDaniel

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

John Betjeman

And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky

John Boyle O'Reilly

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

Khalil Gibran

The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment. A tear and a smile.

Shane Smith

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

Philip Pullman

It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.

Kevin J. Anderson

SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure.

Lewis Carroll

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

Joshua Slocum

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

Kandyse McClure

I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

Paul Kagame

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

Ovid

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Paul Verlaine

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.