Romany Courtship Quotes

#1. This was an ancient Romany courtship rite, and there would be nothing halfhearted about it. She was going to be kidnapped and ravished. Finally.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. Loyalty was their way of life.

Sophia Bar-Lev

#3. Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

C. J. Dennis

#4. What a person thinks about determines what he is.

Charles L. Allen

#5. The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

M.H. Abrams

#7. The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

David Allen

#8. Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.

Pearl Zhu

#9. Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#10. He looks like someone who could slap you or kiss you and you wouldn't be able to tell which one is coming and it would mean the same thing either way.

Alden Bell

#11. Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.

Soren Kierkegaard

#12. I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.
I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

Robin Hobb

#13. Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Isabel Allende

#14. For that love is greater which wins less through equal danger.

Seneca.

#15. Youth does not think into the future far enough, therefore we must encourage them to dream of great tomorrows.

Henrietta Mears