Nobile Dendrobium Quotes

#1. What do the hieroglyphs tell us of what it was like to live under the lash, building the pyramids? Do we talk of that? Do we? No, we talk of the magnificence and majesty of the Egyptians. Of the Romans. Of Saint Petersburg, and nothing of the bones of the hundred thousand slaves that it is built on.

Richard Flanagan

#2. I don't think anyone's past is ever truly gone. You carry every experience, good and bad, within you.

Michele Vail

#3. The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.

Janet Fitch

#4. It's always been 'go'. It's always been 'lie' and 'hide' and 'disappear'. I've never belonged anywhere or had the right to call anything my own. But Coach gave me keys to the court, and you told me to stay. You gave me a key and called it home. I haven't had a home since my parents died.

Nora Sakavic

#5. Pyrenean hemorrhagic fever or PHF," Riese told them, her voice registering fear. "Some are calling it the new Spanish flu, others the red death because of the way the infected's blood oozes from every orifice. Except, unlike the Spanish flu, this one's spreading much, much faster." Anders

James D. Prescott

#6. I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Isaac Asimov

#7. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Randy Alcorn

#8. The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The white moth to the closing vine,
The bee to the open clover,
And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood
Ever the wide world over.

Rudyard Kipling

#10. He propelled himself in and out of me, his hands and hips working in sync to fuck me, not fast, not slow, but hard and deep.

Anonymous

#11. What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and change them if they do not want themselves -Ahmed Maalim Mohamed

Nina Munk

#12. How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

Jean Ingelow

#13. Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

Marianne Williamson

#14. Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy

Giovanni Boccaccio