Lord August Quotes

#1. As Froi crossed this icy tomb, it occurred to him that he might never see Lord August and Lady Abian again. That he had never told them the truth. Finn and Isaboe had taught him to love, but the village of Sayles had taught him to belong.

Melina Marchetta

#2. We do not consider the kingdom damned," Lord August said politely. "We prefer not to use that word."

"What would you call it, Lord August?" Finnikin asked. "A little magic? A slight curse? A bit of bad luck?

Melina Marchetta

#3. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

Agatha Christie

#4. Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone
glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away
Is this the whole?

Lord Byron

#5. Faithful is the Lord, who has made himself our debtor, not by receiving any thing from us, but by promising us all things, (August. in Ps. 32, 109, et alibi).

John Calvin

#6. Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

George Dennison Prentice

#7. Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
News from the humming city comes to it
It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#8. Work is a form of service to God.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.

Florentijn Hofman

#10. Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?

Melina Marchetta

#11. Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.

Wislawa Szymborska

#12. If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you are a backslider.

Smith Wigglesworth