Terrence Perera > Terrence's Quotes

“The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree are of equal duration.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile!”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. (Col. 3:12 NIV)”
― Scotty Smith, Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith

“By this all men will know that you are My disciples: if you love one another!”
― Anonymous

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have been crucified with Christ and Christ lives in me. I live by faith in the Son of God, who loves me and gave Himself for me.”
― Anonymous

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils”
― William Wordsworth

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”
― Anonymous

“He Himself bore our sins in His body on the TREE So that we might die to sin and live for righteousness By His wounds you have been healed”
― Anonymous

“Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose." Macbeth”
― William Shakespeare

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others

“Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things
And battles long ago.”
― William Wordsworth

“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.”
― William Wordsworth

“What shall we do tomorrow
What shall we ever do?
We shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door”
― T.S. Eliot

“Let us go then you and I
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.”
― Anonymous

“Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done't!”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
― Robert Frost

“But who would have thought the old man would have had so much blood in him!”
― William Shakespeare

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
― Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

“My love is like the red red rose
That's newly sprung in June
O my love's like the melody
That's newly played in tune”
― Robert Burns

“In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
Macbeth”
― William Shakespeare

“Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
"That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all”
― T.S.Eliot

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake