"It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken."

-- Margaret of Valois

#Love Quotes #War Quotes #Taken Quotes

“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.74
“When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.”
“Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.”
“A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.”

Source : Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.162, Bantam
“I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!”
“THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new translation, Anthea Bell perfectly captures Stefan Zweig’s glorious evocation of a lost world, Vienna’s golden age, in which he grew up and flourished.”
“I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?”

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