Abysma Quotes & Sayings

We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. — Matthew Arnold

Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she held it up for Alexia to see, rather proudly, as though she'd done all the hard work herself. 'Goodness,' said an exhausted Lady Maccon, 'are babies customarily that repulsive looking? — Gail Carriger

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen. — Mickey Mantle

The family therapist David Freeman once concluded a public lecture on intimacy and relationships by saying that if there was any one thing he hoped his audience would remember from his talk, it was the awareness that one does not know his or her spouse, his or her children. We may believe we have a perfect idea of why they act as they do, when in reality our beliefs reflect no more than our own anxieties. — Gabor Mate

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard. — Cynthia McKinney

I don't believe in retirement. — Stuart Rose

Graduation breathes on us, redneck lady," he said. "Now is the time to make sure we have the strings to all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away. — Maggie Stiefvater

Too many people are overly respectful, braying, 'You're so brave' and Irv fell smack into that trap. After all what's so courageous about having cancer? Once we have it, what choice do we have? But the worst thing of all - and thank God Irv doesn't do this, at least not yet - is all this nonsensical talk about a patient's courageous struggle with cancer that all too often ends in defeat. How many obituaries do you see stating that so-and-so lost their courageous battle with cancer? I hate that! I absolutely hate it! If someone put that in my obituary, I'd come back and kill him! — Irvin D. Yalom

Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting. — Phil Collins

The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth. — John Lancaster Spalding

Finally it was probably less the poverty that bred crime than the sour stench of racism that hung over anyplace where people are separated out by kind. — Robert B. Parker