“I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from My Brother Michael
“If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from My Brother Michael
“I'm not a person whom the sight of olive oil repels, and I love Greek cooking. We had onion soup with grated cheese on top; then the souvlaka, which comes spiced with lemon and herbs, and flanked with chips and green beans in oil and a big dish of tomato salad. Then cheese, and halvas, which is a sort of loaf made of grated nuts and honey, and is delicious. And finally the wonderful grapes of Greece.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from My Brother Michael
“Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't do what he knows he has to do with his life he might as well be dead. He's got to break through the world's indifference, or else break himself against it. He can't help it.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from My Brother Michael
“You made a discovery yesterday; remember? 'No man is an Island.' It's true in more ways than one. Don't go on hating yourself because there are some things you can't do and can't face on your own. None of us can.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from My Brother Michael
“The village is perched on a precipitous hillside, and the houses are built in tiers, one up behind the other, the floor of one level with the roof of the next. The whole village looks as if it were just about to slide into the depths of the valley below.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from My Brother Michael
Mary Stewart
Born place: in Sunderland, The United Kingdom
Born date September 12, 1916
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“You better get used to it. You're going to be on the ground a lot today, but cheer up... tomorrow you'll be an expert.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Forever . . .
“Do you wonder then that this man’s behaviour used to puzzle me tremendously? He was an ordinary clergyman at that time as well as being Headmaster, and I would sit in the dim light of the school chapel and listen to him preaching about the Lamb of God and about Mercy and Forgiveness and all the rest of it and my young mind would become totally confused. I knew very well that only the night before this preacher had shown neither Forgiveness nor Mercy in flogging some small boy who had broken the rules.
So what was it all about? I used to ask myself.
Did they preach one thing and practise another, these men of God?
And if someone had told me at the time that this flogging clergyman was one day to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, I would never have believed it.
It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from Boy: Tales of Childhood
“المعلومات أنها العمود الفقري لأي عمل”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“You can't!" Aaron said. "Didn't you hear anything I just told you? You could die!
" Well, don't kill me," Call said. "How about our goal is not to die. Both of us. Not dying. Together.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Iron Trial
“...
چشم آسایش که دارد از سپهر تیزرو
ساقیا جامی به من ده تا بیاسایم دمی
زیرکی را گفتم این احوال بین خندید و گفت
صعب روزی، بوالعجب کاری، پریشان عالمی
...
در طریق عشقبازی امن و آسایش بلاست
ریش باد آن دل که با درد تو خواهد مرهمی
اهل کام و ناز را در کوی رندی راه نیست
رهروی باید جهان سوزی نه خامی بی غمی
آدمی در عالم خاکی نمی آید به دست
عالمی از نو بباید ساخت وز نو آدمی
گریه ی حافظ چه سنجد پیش استغنای عشق
کاندرین دریا نماید هفت دریا شبنمی ”
― Hafez, quote from The Divan
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I Don't Have Enough...
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Sashenka
Letter to a Christia...
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