Fiallos Shawn Quotes

#1. The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

George Saintsbury

#2. As for God, it was easy to think kindly of Him in a paradise like Indian Hill. It was something else in Newark - or Europe or the Pacific - in the summer of 1944.

Philip Roth

#3. This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President

George Washington

#4. Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

William Of Tyre

#5. The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#6. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22)

Charles R. Swindoll

#8. Snow's all right on a fine morning, but I like to be in bed when it's falling

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. What is the fabric of time like? Black silk? A smooth twill, a rough tweed? Or lacy and fragile like something Mrs. Baxter would knit?

Kate Atkinson

#10. Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas

Paul Newman

#11. Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

Georges Cuvier

#12. You can't smell a hug. You can't hear a cuddle. But if you could, I reckon it would smell and sound of warm bread-and-butter pudding.

Nigel Slater

#13. The Zocalo is a magnificent space, at least four times the size of Trafalagar Square, with the National Palace on one side, the huge cathedral on the other, and in one corner part of the old Aztec City so brutally destroyed by Hernan Cortez and the Conquistadores.

Jeremy Corbyn

#14. Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

Bruce Bawer