Cosculluela Amor Quotes

#1. But imagining what might happen if one's circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness. Sitting #Quote by Amor Towles

#2. Older and shorter, Henry Grey was a painter who lived in the West Village. When Eve asked what was the best word to describe him, after thinking a moment Tinker settled on unwavering - because his brother had always who he was and what he wanted to do. #Quote by Amor Towles

#3. Dark, cold, and snowbound, Russia has the sort of climate in which the spirit of Christmas burns brightest. #Quote by Amor Towles

#4. In moments of high emotion, whether they're triggered by anger or envy, humiliation or resentment, if the next thing you are going to say makes you feel better, than it's probably the wrong thing to say. #Quote by Amor Towles

#5. sometimes everybody tells you something because it is true." "sometimes," nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody... #Quote by Amor Towles

#6. In a state of self-pity, one may retreat from the world in which one has been blessed to live. #Quote by Amor Towles

#7. coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night. "It's #Quote by Amor Towles

#8. On the platform in the opposite corner of the bar, the jazz ensemble was playing a perky little tune. Admittedly, when the Count had first encountered jazz, he hadn't much of an affinity for it. He had been raised to appreciate music of sentiment and nuance, music that rewarded patience and attention with crescendos and diminuendos, allegros and adagios artfully arranged over four whole movements – not a fistful of notes crammed higgledy-piggledy into thirty measures.
And yet…
And yet, the art form had grown on him. Like the American correspondents, jazz seemed a naturally gregarious force – one that was a little unruly and prone to say the first thing that popped into its head, but generally of good humor and friendly intent. In addition, it seemed decidedly unconcerned with where it had been or where it was going – exhibiting somehow simultaneously the confidence of the master and the inexperience of the apprentice. Was there any wonder that such an art had failed to originate in Europe? #Quote by Amor Towles

#9. Alas, Tis true that words are queer
And yet my son, you need not fear.
For in this volume can be seen
All English words and what they mean.
(about a Websters dictionary wrapped in a pink bow) #Quote by Amor Towles

#10. I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime. #Quote by Amor Towles

#11. Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish. #Quote by Amor Towles

#12. guess the point I'm trying to make is that as a species we're just no good at writing obituaries. We don't know how a man or his achievements will be perceived three generations from now, any more than we know what his great-great-grandchildren will be having for breakfast on a Tuesday in March. Because when Fate hands something down to posterity, it does so behind its back." They #Quote by Amor Towles

#13. Friends, Casper observed, are the envy of the angels. #Quote by Amor Towles

#14. For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How #Quote by Amor Towles

#15. It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. #Quote by Lauren Oliver

#16. You could just tell that if Rosie couldn't romance her way to the top of the Empire State Building, she was prepared to climb it like King Kong. #Quote by Amor Towles

#17. True, duels were fought by convention at dawn in isolated locations to ensure the privacy of the gentlemen involved. But were they fought behind ash heaps or in scrapyards? Of course not! They were fought in a clearing among the birch trees with a dusting of snow. Or on the banks of a winding rivulet. Or at the edge of a family estate where the breezes shake the blossoms from the trees. . . . That is, they were fought in settings that one might have expected to see in the second act of an opera. #Quote by Amor Towles

#18. Before one travels abroad, it is best to have a simple, heartwarming soup from home, so that one can recall it fondly should one ever happen to feel a little #Quote by Amor Towles

#19. I love movies, of course. 'Terminator 3' and 'Bad Boys II' - lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies - I'll go to those, but not 'las de amor.' Not romance. It's not that I don't like love, but on the screen it bores me. #Quote by Sergio Garcia

#20. Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us. #Quote by Amor Towles

#21. Some, no doubt, would simply dismiss it as a by-product of barbarism. Given Russia's long, heartless winters, its familiarity with famine, its rough sense of justice, and so on, and so on, it was perfectly natural for its gentry to adopt an act of definitive violence as the means of resolving disputes. #Quote by Amor Towles

#22. Ni muer ni viu ni no guaris,
Ni mal no·m sent e si l'ai gran,
Quar de s'amor no suy devis,
Ni no sai si ja n'aurai ni quan,
Qu'en lieys es tota le mercés
Que·m pot sorzer o decazer."

"Not dying nor living nor healing,
there is no pain in my sickness,
for I am not kept from her love.
I don't know if I will ever have it,
for all the mercy that makes me flourish or decay is in her power. #Quote by Deborah Harkness

#23. 6th Sleep not when others Speak, Sit not when others stand, Speak not when you Should hold your Peace, walk not on when others Stop. 7th #Quote by Amor Towles

#24. To see Charles, the original lone wolf, caught with a foot in the trap of amor
this will amuse me for a while longer, I think. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#25. Be careful mi amor, don't hurt anyone this time." Cordia reminded Jade. #Quote by Isabelle Hardesty

#26. What's more, Fatima was fluent in the floral codes that had governed polite society since the Age of Chivalry. Not only did she know the flower that should be sent as an apology, she knew which flower to send when one has been late; when one has spoken out of turn; and when, having taking notice of the young lady at the door, one has carelessly overtrumped one's partner. In short, Fatima knew a flower's fragrance, color, and purpose better than a bee. #Quote by Amor Towles

#27. Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due. #Quote by Amor Towles

#28. Suddenly - I shone in all my might, and morning rang its round. Always to shine, to shine everywhere, to the very depths of the last days, to shine - and to hell with everything else! That is my motto - and the sun's! #Quote by Amor Towles

#29. You are afraid, just as the people of the Vatican were afraid to accept the Copernican theory. Not even they believed in the infallibility of the Ptolemaic theory. They were afraid of the new situation that would prevail if they accepted the Copernican theory. They were afraid of having to reorder their minds to accept it. Strictly speaking, the Catholic Church has still not publicly accepted the Copernican theory. You are like them. You are afraid of having to shed the amor with which you have long defended yourself. #Quote by Haruki Murakami

#30. Perhaps it is a matter of celestial balance," he reflected. "A sort of cosmic equilibrium. Perhaps the aggregate experience of Time is a constant and thus for our children to establish such vivid impressions of this particular June, we must relinquish our claims upon it." "So that they might remember, we must forget," Vasily summed up. #Quote by Amor Towles

#31. ennui - that dreaded mire of the human emotions. #Quote by Amor Towles

#32. But every period has its virtues, even a time of turmoil. . . . When #Quote by Amor Towles

#33. Who would have imagined," he said, "when you were sentenced to life in the Metropol all those years ago, that you had just become the luckiest man in all of Russia. #Quote by Amor Towles

#34. Because when some incident sheds a favorable light on an old and absent friend, that's about as good a gift as chance intends to offer. #Quote by Amor Towles

#35. Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things. #Quote by Lauren Oliver

#36. Anyone who has spent an hour drinking vodka by the glass knows that size has surprisingly little to do with a man's capacity. There are tiny men for whom the limit is seven and giants for whom it is two. For our German friend, the limit appeared to be three. For if the Tolstoy dropped him in a barrel, and the Tchaikovsky set him adrift, then the caviar sent him over the falls. So, having wagged a chastising finger at the Count, he moved to the corner of the bar, laid his head on his arms, and dreamed of the Sugar Plum Fairy. #Quote by Amor Towles

#37. I told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short on specifics. #Quote by Amor Towles

#38. For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a city famous for its idiosyncratic culture and yet, the very habits, fashions, and ideas that exalt that city in the eyes of the world may make no sense to him at all. As he proceeds through life, he looks about in a state of confusion, understanding neither the inclinations nor the aspirations of his peers. #Quote by Amor Towles

#39. Things weren't always as good as they are now. In school we learned that in the old days, the dark days, people didn't realize how deadly a disease love was.
For a long time they even viewed it as a good thing, something to be celebrated and pursued. Of course that's one of the reasons it's so dangerous: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. (That's symptom number twelve, listed in the amor deliria nervosa section of the twelfth edition of The Safety, Health, and Happiness Handbook, or The Book of Shhh, as we call it.) Instead people back then named other diseases - stress, heart disease, anxiety, depression, hypertension, insomnia, bipolar disorder - never realizing that these were, in fact, only symptoms that in the majority of cases could be traced back to the effects of amor deliria nervosa. #Quote by Lauren Oliver

#40. Often it is brought home to my mind
the dark quality that Love gives me,
and pity moves me, so that frequently
I say: 'Alas! is anyone so afflicted?':
since Amor assails me suddenly,
so that life almost abandons me:
only a single spirit stays with me,
and that remains because it speaks of you.
I renew my strength, because I wish for help,
and pale like this, all my courage drained,
come to you, believing it will save me:
and if I lift my eyes to gaze at you
my heart begins to tremble so,
that from my pulse the soul departs. #Quote by Dante Alighieri

#41. Yes, a ghost, thought the Count, as he moved silently down the hall. Like Hamlet's father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after the midnight watch . . . Or like Akaky Akakievich, that forsaken spirit of Gogol's who in the wee hours haunted the Kalinkin Bridge in search of his stolen coat . . . Why #Quote by Amor Towles

#42. Stuart Davises he #Quote by Amor Towles

#43. end of every question. #Quote by Amor Towles

#44. When a mother loses a daughter, she grieves over the future that her daughter will never have, but she can take solace in memories of close-knit days. But when your daughter runs away, it is the fond memories that have been laid to rest; and your daughter's future, alive and well, recedes from you like a wave drawing out to sea. #Quote by Amor Towles

#45. For when life makes it impossible for a man to pursue his dreams, he will connive to pursue them anyway. #Quote by Amor Towles

#46. Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end. #Quote by Juls Amor

#47. You don't 'find' love, mi amor. You choose it. And then to keep love, you must choose it again, day after day. #Quote by Patricia Engel

#48. Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving. #Quote by Lauren Groff