Acourts Quotes & Sayings

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. — Richard Lamm

I turned up the inane sound effects and let them fill the room, setting up an atmosphere of mind-body pollution while Miss Chianti and I got better acquainted. A couple of glasses had me convinced that she's a real sweetheart, though a protracted rendezvous was probably going to leave me regretting the entire encounter. It's always the quiet ones that come back to bite you. — Alice Yi-Li Yeh

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good. — Vida Blue

You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit. — Catherynne M Valente

I've loved all of my time here. — Tabitha King

What we need to learn from children isn't childish. Being with them connects us to the deep wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. Now, when the world is so confused and its problems so complicated, I feel we need our children more than ever. Their natural wisdom points the way to solutions that lie, waitingto be recognized, within our own hearts. — Michael Jackson

I feel very peaceful. — Yani Tseng

Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart. — Pat Conroy

A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough. — Esther Hicks

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart. — Rodney King

Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone. — Sheryl Crow

You didn't want children?' I don't remember who said this, Susan or I or both of us together. 'Oh God, no. I saw what children do. They turn a good respectable woman into a mudd-dha. I didn't want to be a mudh-dha. I didn't want to be turned inside out. I didn't want to have my world shifted so that I was no longer the centre of it. This is what you have to be careful about, Lao-Tsu. It never happens to men. They just sow the seed and hand out the cigars when you've pushed a football through your vadge. For the next hundred years of your life, you're stuck with being someone whose definition isn't even herself. You're now someone's mudd-dha!' She — Jerry Pinto

I would make sweet love to Don Rickles. — Jim Gaffigan

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts. — Rachel Kushner

It's a mystery to me why extraordinary young women insist that they're normal. — Marta Acosta