Pauline Gedge Quotes
The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in Khaemwaset’s gardens the vivid clusters of flowers had begun to bloom with an abandon that assaulted the eyes and filled the nostrils with delight.
Pauline Gedge
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
Mackenzie Rosman
If you're going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz
You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
Patrick Rothfuss
The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king. … Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.
Randolph Bourne
The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.
Karl Shapiro
In his idle hours, Heusler sometimes amused himself by trying to conceive of a crime a mortal man could commit that was more monstrous than making a goddess fall in love with him. He had never succeeded.
M. K. Hobson
A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!
Eckhart Tolle
All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
Octavia E. Butler
Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out.
Ben Carson
Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
Arthur Balfour
I'd always been a very focused dancer and very protected.
Mayte Garcia
I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.
Sam Reed
The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
Fernando Pessoa
Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna goWhen the whole thing's done.But no one knows for certainAnd so it's all the same to me.I think I'll just let the mystery be.
Iris DeMent
Unforced, as conversation passed,he had the talent of salutingfelicitously every theme,of listening like a judge-supremewhile serious topics were disputing,or, with an epigram-surprise,of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes.
Alexander Pushkin
The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in Khaemwaset’s gardens the vivid clusters of flowers had begun to bloom with an abandon that assaulted the eyes and filled the nostrils with delight.
Pauline Gedge
