Aferrarnos Quotes & Sayings

Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children. — Warren Buffett

The gifts of fate come with a price. For those who have been favored by life's indulgence, rigorous respect in matters of beauty is a non-negotiable requirement. Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time: elements change, are forgotten or reborn, and while there are instances where transgression can become the source of an even greater wealth, this does not alter the fact that to be entitled to the liberties of playfulness or enlightened misusage when using language, one must first and foremost have sworn one's total allegiance. Society's elect, those whom fate has spared from the servitude that is the lot of the poor, must, consequently, shoulder the double burden of worshipping and respecting the splendors of language. — Muriel Barbery

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal. — Jacob K. Javits

the U.S. Census Bureau has not asked about religious affiliation since 1946 — Robert P. Jones

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains. — Ralph Ellison

There will always be cougars outside. It's such a chick thing to think life should go on forever — Chuck Palahniuk

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. — Trevor Dunn

Self-pity shortens your life ... — Joan Rivers

May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones. — Russell Means

People are afraid of anybody who is different: It makes them worry everyone else is different too, and just pretending to be all the same. James — Cassandra Clare

If realistic fiction is primarily metonymic, fantasy is inescapably metaphoric; because the presence of the impossible blocks a literal reading, we are invited to look at Fred and his world as some sort of iconic stand-in for everyday life, rather than as an extension from it. By — Brian Attebery

The return of Jesus will be personal, physical, visible and glorious. — Alistair Begg

Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace. — Frederick Lewis Allen

Souraya thought those days that she knew so many songs about the misery of love because pain kept love within the boundaries of time, and knowable, whereas what she was experiencing passed beyond the horizon of birth and death; it was like the eternal life the prophets spoke of. A gesture, a kiss, a task, a sentence had a golden elemental endlessness, like the scenes in the murals painted in the island houses. — Patricia Storace