Alpena Quotes & Sayings

It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice, — William Maxwell

By the time we landed in the hospital, most of our families considered us insensitive liars, but we didn't start out that way. We started out as ultrasensitive truth tellers. We saw everyone around us smiling and repeating "I'm fine! I'm fine! I'm fine!" and we fund ourselves unable to join them in all the pretending. We had to tell the truth, which was: "Actually, I'm not fine. — Glennon Doyle Melton

If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle. — Wes Fesler

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have. — Sean O'Casey

He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you. — Margaret Atwood

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future. — Julius Sterling Morton

Abandon a dachshund and upon your return, you may well be confronted with a small token of her displeasure. This, for the dachshund, is an undignified but necessary form of training. Eventually, you will learn your lesson, which is to take you with her everywhere. When you have finally accepted this, you will be generously rewarded for your good behavior by a jaunty, joyful companion. — Mary Doria Russell

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back. — Edward Lear

I'm a pretty good snowboarder but a terrible surfer. — Cory Monteith

The fly was on my desk, his hose in the candy dust. I cupped my hand and covered him, then brushed him past the edge to see where he'd go. He returned to the dust, as if I hadn't just demonstrated that I could kill him, as if I hadn't just shown him right there in the dust. — Adam Levin

The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty. — Neale Donald Walsch

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. — Tom Robbins

Speaking of this, he felt something had been returned to him, as though the inestimable losses of life had been lifted like a boulder, and beneath he saw - under the attentive gaze of Daisy's blue eyes - the comforts and sweetness of what had once been. — Elizabeth Strout