Josephine de La Baume famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I won't leave you but you need to go on up and say your goodbyes. I'll stand right here behind you," Beau whispered from beside me

  • If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?

  • No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.

  • Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

  • Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

  • A divided heart loses both worlds.

  • But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

  • It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

  • Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

  • Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.