Albertans Stock Quotes & Sayings

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared. — Gary Clark Jr.

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts. — Debra Winger

I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults - librarians, friends' parents - suggest to me that I liked books "with magic" because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face. — Laura Miller

sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It — Marian Keyes

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff. — Malcolm Forbes

How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be." "That — Agatha Christie

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime. — J.G. Ballard

Don't you dare send me away, you c-coward. Who else would love my freckles? Who
else would care that my feet were cold? Who else would ravish me in the billiards
room? — Lisa Kleypas

Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world — Kelly Martin

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt. — Christiaan Huygens

With most people suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The two other bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about our lives. Academic culture blesses this practice by insisting that the more abstract our speech, the more likely we are to touch the universal truths that unite us. But what happens is exactly the reverse: as our discourse becomes more abstract, the less connected we feel. There is less sense of community among intellectuals than in the most 'primitive' society of storytellers. Parker Palmer, AHW, 123 — Parker J. Palmer