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When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

Quote by Kenneth Grahame about literature, dark, air

There are many things I’d rather be doing than driving it, including waiting for Bernard Manning to come off stage in a sweaty nightclub, and then licking his back clean.

Quote by Jeremy Clarkson about pasion, things

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

Quote by Florence Nightingale about life, pain

When you are eliminating the vanity, you can exist in literature, because you find other arguments for the fact that you are existing, less vanitous and the things are then back to normal, in a more acceptable order.

Quote by Dinu Flamand about writing, proudness, vanity, literature, contentment, order, things

Infinite These solitary hills have always been dear to me. Seated here, this sweet hedge, which blocks the distant horizon opening inner silences and interminable distances. I plunge in thought to where my heart, frightened, pulls back....

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about infinite, thinking, eternity, voice, present, past, heart, spirit, time, love

The small gifts Small gifts of air and tired light, Of a more distant God. Vague signs On the back of his graphs. When everything you have love is sinking slowly In air, light, in the mud of brain... And remain... What remain? Small...

Quote by Alexandru Musina about gifts, air, light, astrology, word, brain, god, contentment, things, dream

Traces: In the morning I've seen on the streets Cracked traces of soles, Freshly printed in asphalt. Maybe my father has looked for me To takes me back In the countryside. World order RightWords translation

Quote by Nicolae Esinencu about poetry, order, world

In fact, what exactly defines a life: submission to a predictable fate or the inventing, at any cost, of our own destiny? Where are beginning the mystification, cynicism, and betrayal, and where is ending up the dream, candor and duplicity?...

Quote by Constantin Stoiciu about life, destiny, cynicism, conscience, beginning, dream, self-control, history, death, world

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

Quote by Auberon Alexander Waugh about opinion, people

The best job for an author is to be a postman. It has nothing to do with writing, it gets him out in the air, he sees what is going on in his community, he can read everyone’s postcards, and he comes back to his desk refreshed, not weary of words.

Quote by Albert Joseph Guerard about literature, air, writing, word, nothing

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Quote by Barbara De Angelis about love, contentment

Never take more out of life, than you intend to give back.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about life, contentment

A disability is just that, if you let it hold you back.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about ability, contentment

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger about life

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

Let the faith to stike me so I can stike it back too.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about destiny, faith

If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything, except my faith. I want to fall forward. At least I figure that way I’ll see what I’m about to hit

DQuote by Denzel Washington about fall, faith