Now, their eyes said. Now. Then: Patience, patience. 'You are flowers,' their mouths said, 'You are jewels, you are golden dreams.' Their eyes said: I eat flowers, I burn with dreams, I have a tower without a door in my heart, and I will keep you there...
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Related Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I L.M. MONTGOMERY Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. STANISLAUS I BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. GREGORY I I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING ELIZABETH I FERDINAND I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I CHARLES I BAUDOUIN I ELIZABETH I I CHING FAROUK I CHARLES I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig... I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business. A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff... The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn. Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness. That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words. EYDEN I. ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. STANISLAUS I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it. STANISLAS I Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience. One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti... To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to... Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of... Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi... A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d... If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool. Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ... Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs. Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice. The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless. Friendship is love with understanding. So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan. Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
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PATRICIA KAAS When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i... PATRICIA KAAS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,... PATRICIA KAAS Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible. PATRICIA KAAS Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent... PATRICIA IRELAND And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fac... PATRICIA IRELAND We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would... PATRICIA IRELAND We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ... PATRICIA IRELAND We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets reall... 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I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then. 
Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma... 
One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su... 
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p... 
Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o... 
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a... 
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you... 
I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e... 
Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. 
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy... 
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ... 
Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. 
Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored. 
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W... 
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas. 
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ... 