Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.
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Ad astra per aspera
[To the stars through difficulties]
MOTTO Per aspera ad Astra.
SENECA Ad astra
[To the stars]
MOTTO The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet.
'Not always,' I countered.
'Yes, alw...
RUTA SEPETYS Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.
RUTA SEPETYS Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God
rules the stars.
[Lat., Tempora...
CHRISTOPH CELLARIUS (KELLER) 'Between Shades of Gray' is a story of astonishing force. I feel grateful for a writer like ...
SUSAN CAMPBELL BARTOLETTI We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have ...
RUTA SEPETYS We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.
RUTA SEPETYS Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket wat...
RUTA SEPETYS Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.
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RUTA SEPETYS I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet.
RUTA SEPETYS New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music,...
RUTA SEPETYS Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
RUTA SEPETYS Those memories, they are the coals that shield my heart from frost.
RUTA SEPETYS Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that someh...
RUTA SEPETYS We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one an...
RUTA SEPETYS Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the...
RUTA SEPETYS He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his...
RUTA SEPETYS You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
RUTA SEPETYS What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.
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"We know us,...
RUTA SEPETYS Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.
RUTA SEPETYS But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck ...
RUTA SEPETYS How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to los...
RUTA SEPETYS ...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.
RUTA SEPETYS His smugness was annoying. This was the type of man who looked at a picture on the wall and instead ...
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RUTA SEPETYS All the little duckies with their heads in the water
Heads in the water
All the little duc...
RUTA SEPETYS He was beautiful.
The knight was beautiful,handsome when he smiled.
He didn’t want anyo...
RUTA SEPETYS What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collectiv...
RUTA SEPETYS Oz thinks I'm beautiful," she whispered to the stars.
JAMES PATTERSON I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
LALLA WARD We pay based upon on ratings. As the audience grows, we pay more per ad.
JACK MILLER God tests His people through hardship.
JOHN PIPER Poverty simpy means passing through the hardship road,just to become wise.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to g...
, "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS" You could rattle the stars,' she whispered. 'You could do anything, if only you dared.
SARAH J. MAAS Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the s...
BROM Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 God does not lead His children around hardship,...
OTTO DIBELIUS Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."
A tear trickled down Artemis's che...
RICK RIORDAN I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the ...
ICE T Through struggle to the stars.
ANON. I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and im...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.
"Oh, I was. I was flying past t...
ROALD DAHL Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I of...
MARKUS ZUSAK Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually eve...
MICHAEL MOORE I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.
LEIGH BARDUGO To divert meaningful volumes of through-trucks from I-81 in Virginia, the upgraded rail line would n...
DAVID FOSTER I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from...
ZHANG XIN Even though billions of dollars have been spent on other ad slogans, somehow 'Have it Your Way' cont...
RUSS KLEIN I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs...
LAURA HILLENBRAND I would leave everything and join the World Tree tomorrow if she died, " Tamani said.
"I know, ...
APRILYNNE PIKE He'll say, 'Papa, they can't tackle me,'
LORENZO LYNCH I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It'...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Stree...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them...
MARJANE SATRAPI Papa, do you like my new friend?" Frances Catherine asked when they were halfway across the field. JULIE GARWOOD If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing wi...
PENN JILLETTE You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down...
SARAH J. MAAS It is only a great mind that will go through hardship in life,but will want to make life easier for ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) With greater employment taking place in China through Hong Kong, the net outlook for Hong Kong has d...
SOUMEN BASU Reach for the stars.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE The nationwide average could easily push through $2.50 per gallon this week.
TOM KLOZA Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you g...
GERMANY KENT I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere
WILLIAM CONGREVE Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN A monster. I despise my true form. (Acheron)
I can’t imagine why. Other than killing me, you ...
SHERRILYN KENYON What are those people doing?" Jenna whispered to me.
"I don't know," I replied through a froze...
RACHEL HAWKINS J.D. feels good. He's a proud papa.
GRADY LITTLE If Argentina can make it through the weekend, I see the real steady at around 1.7 or 1.71 per dollar...
DINIZ PIGNATARI He paused for a minute and I could feel him trembling. “I love you,” he whispered against my ski...
KRISTEN MIDDLETON But they didn't get a sponsor, and the best quote they could get from anybody was Papa John's $5.50 ...
DAN PEARSON I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.
DAVID MARKSON Hardship makes the world obscure.
DON DELILLO Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
IRWIN REDLENER We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always goin...
ANGIE MARTINEZ For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
EPICTETUS They're out of contact now; their cell phones may not be working there. When we get into the trenche...
BILL PYLE I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant a...
NELSON MANDELA He would want to see the '47 Holy Cross team, ... They would want to see Papa.
JIM CALHOUN Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps,
Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,
Mortals are all asleep bel...
JOHN PETER HEBEL ”(…) spesso sto davanti a me stesso come davanti a un estraneo, quando in ore tranquille un e...
ERIC MARIA REMARQUE My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack.
TUPAC SHAKUR Be strong, I whispered to my WiFi signal.
ANONYMOUS I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate -...
COLIN FARRELL Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the n...
MARKUS ZUSAK the hardship and oppression of others.
GEORGE W BUSH Hope is the discipline of hardship.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in t...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
GARY CLARK, JR. Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows w...
MARKUS ZUSAK The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow t...
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