Afflicated Quotes & Sayings

He looked at them curiously, as if he had not seen them before, and felt very distant from them and very close to them. — John Edward Williams

We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; merely in different rooms. — Paulo Coelho

I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading....
From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits.
The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was divided in two: an ordinary, everyday world, brutal and unresponding to desires, and a spacious, logical world, about all kind, interesting and desirable.
Wasn't the very act of reading a pleasure more substantial than that of playing or eating, for instance, even when one was starved? — Joseph Zobel

Persistence and change need to be considered together, in spite of their apparently opposite nature. — Paul Watzlawick

Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees. — Stonewall Jackson

The future is in your hands, she resumed. She held her own hands out to us, the ancient gesture that was both an offering and an invitation, to come forward, into an embrace, an acceptance. In your hands, she said, looking down at her own hands as if they had given her the idea. But there was nothing in them. They were empty. It was our hands that were supposed to be full, full of the future; which could be held but not seen. — Margaret Atwood

Story telling is joke telling. — Andrew Stanton

He focused his mind on other things so his pecker would behave and not turn any harder than it already was. Things like pruning bushes, and weeding the vegetable garden, and planting his cock deep inside her. "No, No, not that, I mustna dwell on that. — Vonnie Davis

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable. — Wess Stafford

His thirst was as tall as he was and more the man. It walked alone and was the only real life in the wind-weary February night. — Lester Goran