Aggregations Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Each of us is born into our own mysteries ... but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging! — Alexander McCall Smith

In a plane again, Ashley thought sourly, her nose pressed to the window. Down below, glacier fought granite from horizon to horizon. This was the final leg of the two-day journey. Yesterday, they had flown the eight hundred miles from Buenos Aires to Esperanza, the Argentine army base on the tip on an Antarctic Peninsula. There, Ashley had her first taste of Antarctic air - like ice water poured into her lungs. — James Rollins

A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe. — Rita Rudner

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels. — Natalya Vorobyova

Think of how lovely it all could have been had anything gone right, and then I think: Oh heavens, why prolong it, I've no income now. — George Saunders

This conference on religious education seems to your humble servant the last word in absurdity. We are told by a delightful 'expert' that we ought not really teach our children about God lest we rob them of the opportunity of making their own discovery of God, and lest we corrupt their young minds by our own superstitions. If we continue along these lines the day will come when some expert will advise us not to teach our children the English language, since we rob them thereby of the possibility of choosing the German, French or Japanese languages as possible alternatives. Don't these good people realize that they are reducing the principle of freedom to an absurdity? — Reinhold Niebuhr

I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room. — Jim Butcher

I love the arts. — Columba Bush

It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility. — Mario Balotelli

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer. — H.W. Brands

A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together. — Alice Dreger

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings. — Vincent Van Gogh

Xi explains model of governance in new book — Anonymous

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest. — Napoleon Bonaparte