Misenum Quotes

#1. The wife of Ben-Hur, sat in her room in the beautiful villa by Misenum. It was noon, with a warm Italian sun making summer for the roses and vines outside. Everything in the apartment was Roman,

Lew Wallace

#2. My ideas about God were formed in childhood and did not keep abreast of my growing knowledge in other disciplines. I

Karen Armstrong

#3. She was older, no longer the wicked limber girl with the stalled Vespa, but no less beautiful to me for that: whatever elliptical beauty Cassie possesses has always lain not in the vulnerable planes of color and texture but deeper, in the polished contours of her bones.

Tana French

#4. If as a society we place more value on people for their physical appearance; such as weight, skin, eye color, and height, versus their heart and character, then we are draining the wealth and heart out of our society.

Leta B.

#5. All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

Alexander Pope

#6. How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#7. Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

Hilary Mantel

#8. You don't know what narrow lives girls have, how few real adventures there are for them; misadventures, yes, like abortions and little men following them in subways, but seldom anything like seeing ships at night.

Joyce Johnson

#9. He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

#10. I know what I can do and what I'm able to accomplish.

Steve Nash

#11. Just eat it and shit it and be done with it and don't feel special cuz you eat that shit with someone because in the end we all shit alone!

Caroline Kepnes

#12. I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

Satish Kumar

#13. Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

Friedrich Nietzsche