Gratiano And Nerissa Quotes

#1. GRATIANO
I have a wife I love. I wish she were in heaven so she could appeal to some power to make this dog Jew change his mind.
NERISSA
It's nice you're offering to sacrifice her behind her back. That wish of yours could start quite an argument back at home.

William Shakespeare

#2. America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

Francis Parkman

#3. For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it.

David Foster Wallace

#4. There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen ... Growing up takes longer than you think.

Lauren Bacall

#6. Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

Jack Kornfield

#7. Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Sarah Manguso

#8. A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

Nhat Hanh

#9. If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Casey Affleck

#10. Each draws to his best-loved.

Virgil

#11. Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

Stephen Richards

#12. My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

Roger Federer

#13. Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Seneca The Younger

#14. Do not the spirits who dwell in the ether envy man his pain?

Kahlil Gibran

#15. I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.

Kesh