4986er0004f Quotes & Sayings

The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him. — Henry David Thoreau

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times. — Miranda Richardson

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness. — Ellen Glasgow

And how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love — David Whyte

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. — Bruce Cockburn

You have always been a child between, a witch apart. But there is no path forward that does not have him in it. Whichever way you go, you must choose him. — Deborah Harkness

Fate is an obligation I don't understand
the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine. — Andrew X. Pham

But after all highs comes a low. — Andie Mitchell

Food was a responsibility, a ward she was determined to go by, ... She'd force herself through to the last forkful even to the point of nausea, because she didn't understand that it was there for her and not the other way round. — Lionel Shriver