Heavy heart Quote by Walter M. Miller Jr

“To be sure, the Bishop was a little theatrical in his humility, as he had been in his grandeur; but that was his way,…

— Willa Cather

“Patience is the virtue that forges great men.”

— Chris Vincent

“The matter had to be settled immediately, without delaying another day, for at times he too felt an imperious need for instant solutions, which…

— Guy de Maupassant

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“But soon a better nature seems to come over him, and gentler words fall from his lips. He preaches patience to himself – he…

— James Malcolm Rymer

“fortunately or unfortunately, man is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and physically, without dying; that it is therefore…

— Victor Hugo

“He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he…

— Elizabeth Musser

“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white,…

— John Christopher

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“Mr. Stanton never questioned his own authority to command, unless resisted. He cared nothing for the feeling of others. In fact it seemed to…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“She looked up at him, wondering when it was that this man, her brother, had become so wise. If he'd yelled one more word,…

— Julia Quinn

“Oh he was like them, like those laced-up ladies—warm from wards. A man, he still chewed the nipple, titillation, and risked no freer, deeper…

— William H. Gass