Manchineel Quotes

#1. I was resting in the shadow of that ideal happiness as in the shade of the poisonous manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#3. Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Eddie Van Halen

#4. Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

Susanna Kearsley

#5. Free agency is a gift of God ... The world does not comprehend the significance of that divine gift to the individual. It is as inherent as intelligence which, we are told, has never been nor can be created

David O. McKay

#6. I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.

George Gissing

#7. I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

Jose Gonzalez

#8. More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

John Dryden

#9. Woe, woe is me that I am a sinner, that I grieve this blessed God, who is infinite in goodness and grace!

Anonymous