Canto Xiii Quotes

#1. All human history attests
That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! -
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

George Gordon Byron

#2. To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

Robert Breault

#3. I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.

Syleena Johnson

#4. And there the stories
Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted
His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.

George Gordon Byron

#5. Not foliage green, but of a fusk colour,
Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled
not apple-tress were there, but thorns with poison.

Dante Alighieri

#6. I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

Ted Cruz

#7. Their mouths falling together every time they were alone had to cease.

Jennifer Ashley

#8. When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

Josh Radnor

#9. Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

J.G. Ballard