Gemma Fasheun > Gemma's Quotes

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
― George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways

“She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.”
― Florence L. Barclay, The Rosary

“Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.”
― Nicola Abbagnano

“Grown men do not need leaders.”
― Edward Abbey

“There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”
― Berenice Abbott

“One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.”
― Jack Henry Abbott

“Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
― Lyman Abbott

“Iar razbunarea e aceasta: intrucat noi l-am ucis pe el, el asa mort cum este ne-a luat lumina si cu ochii inchisi i-a inchis pe-ai nostri, care nu mai stralucesc deasupra pamantului.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime

“Din ce e farmec si vremelnicie si indurare, raul meu se naste.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime

“Se duc genii si durere, mor cuvinte si placere, generatii sub tacere, fum in vant, sub soare umbra.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime

“si zi de zi, mahnindu-l viitorul, la gandul mortii tresarind exulta si intre teama si nadejde tine pe cai imaginare sa-si ia zborul.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime

“Ce viclesug, ce forta si ce geniu, stapan ingrat, m-ar duce iar la tine, chip milostiv ce-n inima porti moarte?”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime

“Cel ce iubirea-si ia drept arma, frange destin si ura, forta si mizerii.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime

“As when, O lady mine,
With chiselled touch
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“In van! Cand vrei sa cazi, nu iei aminte la bratul care vrea sa te ridice.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime

“Cruzimea n-are rost unde-i iubire si nici puterea unde-i umilinta; blandetea-nvinge orice-mpotrivire, ca veseli orice suferinta.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime

“I am not talking about living dangerously. Such words are meaningless to me. The toreador does not stir me to enthusiasm. It is not danger I love. I know what I love. It is life.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“Today the word "hope" had grown meaningless. Today we were tramping simply because we were tramping. Probably oxen work for the same reason. Yesterday I had dreamed of a paradise of orange-trees. Today I would not give a button for paradise; I did not believe oranges existed. When I thought about myself I found in me nothing but a heart squeezed dry. I was tottering but emotionless. I felt no distress whatever, and in a way I regretted it: misery would have seemed to me as sweet as water. I might then have felt sorry for myself and commiserated with myself as with a friend.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags with three elemental divinities: mountain, sea and storm.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“I am a man raking through ashes, a man struggling to find the embers of life in the bottom of a fireplace.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“Everyone seems inspired by some religion that promises fulfillment. Within the clashing words we are all expressing the same impulses. We are divided over methods which are the fruit of our reasoning, but not over our goals, which are identical.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars