1755 Lisbon Quotes

#1. A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.

Gail Carriger

#2. But even the moment when the leaves fall from their boughs - even that moment - has a beauty to it. A glory of its own.

Renee Ahdieh

#3. What gives a liturgy its plot? A liturgy is always a sort of drama, that is, an intentional sequence of events, however simple or simply done, that has a plot.

Ellen F. Davis

#4. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really trully and honestly take those back ...

John Green

#5. [F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#6. The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.

Adolf Hitler

#7. Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

Joshua Reynolds

#8. After accepting the bitter truth of society, I set myself out to lead a life for myself entirely. I realized that the poisonous tentacles of society does not spare anyone, especially people like us. Once I realized that, I became strong from within.

Santosh Avvannavar

#9. I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Phil Jones

#10. In 1755 one of the worst natural disasters of the eighteenth century occurred: the Lisbon earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people. This Portuguese city was devastated not just by the earthquake, but also by the tsunami that followed, and then by fires that raged for days.

Nigel Warburton

#11. Sometimes you have to have a breakdown before you have a breakthrough!

Evinda Lepins

#12. I calculated how easy it would be to pull a chair next to the windowsill, climb up, and simply allow my body to fall four stories to the street. Then an inner voice broke in, There's got to be something more. Go find it.

Debra Moffitt

#13. Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.

Sarah Addison Allen

#14. If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Warren Ellis

#15. If our minds and hearts are not filled with God's truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs - the list is endless.

Billy Graham