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Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.
Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.
Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword
What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.
You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.
It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.
The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.