A love affair is a spirited ride over volcanoes.


Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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I sat by the river and silence heard my thoughts.
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Those who want to power know no mercy.
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October brings soft tones and classy robes into nature.
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And your mouth breathes peace on my lips -
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Before you speak words of hatred, so count with peace in your voice to ten.
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Disrespect adheres to the ignorant; like wet leaves, breathed, on cold skin.
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It is a lie.
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All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
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For me, my life is a journey.
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When someone beats a rug,
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Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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Romance is a love affair in other that domestic surroundings
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Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.
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Life is a school of probability.
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This life is a process of learning.
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Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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Everybody in life is a chameleon.
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Life is a grand party.
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Everyday life continues during a love affair.
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All of America right now is having a love affair with real estate.
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Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
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Vanity is man's love affair with himself.
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George had a long love affair with the islands.
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The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.
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My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE
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For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
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Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
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Don’t make your journey toward success a competition—make it a love affair.
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There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compel...
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who ...
SIR PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which ...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
SIR RICHARD STEELE
The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven...
SIR RICHARD STEELE
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
I am not young enough to know everything.
SIR J.M. BARRIE
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE
It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betak...
SIR EDWARD COKE
There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and ...
SIR EDWARD COKE
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offe...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia i...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma;...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will no...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because h...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL