Valiente Amor Quotes

#1. Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is. #Quote by Virgil

#2. The Count took pride in wearing a well-tailored jacket; but he took greater pride in knowing that a gentleman's presence was best announced by his bearing, his remarks, and his manners. Not by the cut of his coat. Yes, #Quote by Amor Towles

#3. For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving. #Quote by Amor Towles

#4. And under the influence of the cradle like rocking of the train, your carefully crafted persona begins to slip away. The superego dissolves as your mind begins to wander aimlessly over your cares and dreams; or better yet, it drifts into an ambient hypnosis, where even cares and dreams recede and the peaceful silence of the cosmos pervade. #Quote by Amor Towles

#5. If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find without. #Quote by Doreen Valiente

#6. My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it. #Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Just a few weeks before, no detail of my life had been big enough to merit my attention. #Quote by Amor Towles

#8. 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

#9. Suddenly,I could picture Tinker on the back of a horse somewhere: at the edge of the treeline under a towering sky ... at his college roommate's ranch, perhaps ... where rhey hunted deer with antique rifles and with dogs that were better bred than me. #Quote by Amor Towles

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

#11. Stuart Davises he #Quote by Amor Towles

#12. our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of supreme lucidity - a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of a bold new life that we had been meant to lead all along. #Quote by Amor Towles

#13. For over two centuries (or so historians tell us), it was from the St. Petersburg salons that our country's culture advanced. From those great rooms overlooking the Fontanka Canal, new cuisines, fashions, and ideas all took their first tentative steps into Russian society. #Quote by Amor Towles

#14. Quod not cogit amor? (Is there anything love couldn't make us do?) #Quote by Karen Marie Moning

#15. In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being led without mystery or menace or magic. #Quote by Amor Towles

#16. Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations? #Quote by Amor Towles

#17. It wasn't about who had dibs now or who was sitting next to whom in the cinema. The game had changed; or rather, it wasn't a game at all anymore. It was a matter of making it through the night, which is often harder than it sounds, and always a very individual business. #Quote by Amor Towles

#18. 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

#19. As I've said to you before, we and the Americans will lead the rest of this century because we are the only nations who have learned to brush the past aside instead of bowing before it. But where they have done so in service of their beloved individualism, we are attempting to do so in service of the common good. #Quote by Amor Towles

#20. Like the Freemasons, the Confederacy of the Humbled is a close-knit brotherhood whose members travel with no outward markings, but who know each other at a glance. For having fallen suddenly from grace, those in the Confederacy share a certain perspective. Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They are not quick to envy or take offense. They certainly do not scour the papers in search of their own names. They remain committed to living among their peers, but they greet adulation with caution, ambition with sympathy, and condescension with an inward smile. #Quote by Amor Towles

#21. For if a room that exists under the governance, authority, and intent of others seems smaller than it is, then a room that exists in secret can, regardless of its dimensions, seem as vast as one cares to imagine. Rising #Quote by Amor Towles

#22. Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write about in books, but that almost no one seems to possess. I was wondering to myself: How does she do that? And I figured it could only come from having no regrets - from having made choices with ... such poise and purpose. #Quote by Amor Towles

#23. he had decided after careful consideration to join a monastery and take an eternal vow of silence. Immediately. Without a moment's delay. Or, as soon as they'd had lunch. "Do #Quote by Amor Towles

#24. That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to. #Quote by Amor Towles

#25. The Count commenced to cough into his napkin, as he had determined long ago that this was the most effective means of removing wine from his windpipe. #Quote by Amor Towles

#26. In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquium, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature. #Quote by Amor Towles

#27. 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

#28. By the smallest of one's actions one can restore some sense of order to the world. #Quote by Amor Towles

#29. The only difference between everybody and nobody is all the shoes. #Quote by Amor Towles

#30. Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundane
int he cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap i the bath
she has probably put herself in unnecessary danger. #Quote by Amor Towles

#31. Stalin himself declared: Life has improved, comrades. Life is more joyous. . . . #Quote by Amor Towles

#32. The disease. Amor deliria nervosa. You can't catch it from me. I'm safe." Alex told me that very same thing, once. I push the memories of him away, willing them deep into the darkness. "And #Quote by Lauren Oliver

#33. word of orchestration, the head of the table was left to Bulganin, Khrushchev, Malenkov, Mikoyan, Molotov, and Voroshilov - the six most eminent members of the Party - with the two center seats reserved #Quote by Amor Towles

#34. 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

#35. I could have chosen to hide it all and retain your praise but it was still there rustling in my gut with or without your love.
To hate me for my truth means you loved me for my lies. #Quote by Juls Amor

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

#37. Since Love is a greased pig wasn't a particularly dignified motto, she decided the Latin translation was more elegant: Amor est uncta porcus. #Quote by Lisa Kleypas

#38. Wallace was just the sort who blends into the background of the school photo (or the greeting line at the cotillion) but who, with the passage of time, increasingly stands out against the lapses in character around him. #Quote by Amor Towles

#39. Amor does not vincit omnia, you ignorant man... when the woman doesn't amat you back! #Quote by Liz Braswell

#40. Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
[Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.] #Quote by Ovid