"Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep."

-- Edna Ferber

#Summer Quotes #Spring Quotes #Promise Quotes

“During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.”
“I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.”
“I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.”
“I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.”
“The usual struggle squeezing my bloated CitroÃ«n, absurdly named â€œPicasso,â€ in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking a year over this and doing it on a donkey. Eventually found the road to the church of the Madonna of San Biagio, a foursquare temple sitting all alone in the plain. Sangallo's fantasy of the Doric order in honey-colored sandstone, with shell-niches, rosettes, oculi under heavy entablatures. Any one ignorant of geometry scarcely dare enter this shrine to number, measure, and weight. So clean and crisp I could eat it for breakfast.”
“Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.”
“My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.”

Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.63, Random House
“Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape.”

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