King Alonso The Tempest Quotes

#1. Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#2. Why should I play the Roman fool and die On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them.

William Shakespeare

#3. worked, the bomb, in all probability, would shorten

Harry Truman

#4. [on Paulette Goddard] It was her honesty I liked.

Veronica Lake

#5. It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Francoise Sagan

#6. If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.

Nigel Lawson

#7. I gave up practically the whole world for you," I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. "The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.

Jandy Nelson

#8. Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that - because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

Jerry Spinelli

#9. Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

Shigeru Yoshida

#10. Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

Pema Chodron