Semipatriarchal Quotes

To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. — Charles Lamb

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it. — Max De Pree

As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens. — Anthony De Mello

Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time. — Cliff Richard

While a kind man was working up the nerve to ask me on a date, I was working up the nerve to kill him with my bare hands — Amy McAuley

He spent his free time at the — Kristan Higgins

After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere. — Aravind Adiga

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person. — Maya Angelou

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying! — Wendelin Van Draanen

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow. — Victor Hugo

Your shelled bed I remember.
Father, this thick air is murderous.
I would breathe water. — Sylvia Plath