Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezRead
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.
I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.
You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.
There still might be a place for us somewhere.
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov
The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
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