John Cleland Quotes

#1. Women usually tell that version of the truth which flatters them the most.

Valentin V.

#2. He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.

John Cleland

#3. Compassion arises spontaneously from wisdom.

Eric Weiner

#4. Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

Alison Krauss

#5. It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.

Chris Hadfield

#6. He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.

Nadeem Aslam

#7. Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

Nhat Hanh

#8. John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

Max Cleland

#9. But we no more choose our passions than our features or complexion.

John Cleland

#10. When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Pat Conroy

#11. What would the Living One have me do?

George MacDonald