Alaihim Quotes & Sayings

His face searching the bus windows looked expectant, impatient, and a little anxious. It was a husband's face. Familiar, known, increasing beloved. Mary Ann, I reflected, had an awful lot to learn. And actually, I reflected, I wouldn't be in her shoes right now for all the flowers in Bermuda ... having it all to learn again.
— Ann Head

Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths. — Josephine Hart

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. — Wislawa Szymborska

I started to cry, but no one could tell because it was dark and pouring. — Rachel Friedman

What makes most of us who we are most of all is...how we respond to what happens to us. — Joshua Prager

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me. — David Alan Grier

Run to knowledge. Sprint to understanding. Dash to wisdom. Soar to enlightenment. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth. — Gabrielle Bernstein

It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers. — Michael Haneke

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: we shall try again and again, and we are bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but we have to defy them. So do not give up, do not give up! Continue, continue! The goal is ahead of you. If you do not give up, you are bound to reach your destined goal. — Sri Chinmoy

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. — Jill Lepore

I understand if you choose to leave. If it means you get to live, I'd let you go. But you need to know, I won't ever regret a moment we've spent together — Jennifer Silverwood

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. — Frank A. Clark

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too. — Aaron Scharf