Angus Lordie S Poems Quotes & Sayings

A full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide it ... — Michael Cunningham

Another possibility is that competition for resources flared up into violence and genocide. Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group. Would — Yuval Noah Harari

Izzy was sitting cross-legged on the couch, a paper-back book in her hands. She didn't look up when we came in, and I wondered what she was reading that had her so absorbed. Monster Killing for Beginners, probably. — Rachel Hawkins

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. — Helen Garner

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. — David Mamet

Truth is on the side of compassion. — Christina Hoff Sommers

But although the rules are vague
And widely disregarded now
Some precepts remain: live with love -
That is a rule we all can understand;
Forgive those who need forgiveness,
Which I think is everybody, more or less;
Be kind - that, perhaps, is first and foremost
In any postmodern, new-fangled
Code we devise for ourselves;
Yes, be kind: love one another,
And most of all tend with gentleness
The small patch of terra firma
That is allocated to each of us ... — Alexander McCall Smith

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. — John Major

There you go again, tangoing in tap shoes... — Donna Fasano

Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future. — Louise Hay

Do you think there'd be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn't for that South Park photo? — Kanye West

Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions. — Yayoi Kusama

It wasn't that she was mad at him for being uninjured. She was so relieved she could have vomited, actually. — Sarah J. Maas

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again. — Elizabeth David

We may prefer a more primitive analysis: that when you defeat an enemy you are required to eat his heart. In this way is your victory recorded with The Gods. In this way too do The Gods ensure the continuation of their amusement: you consume the heart of your enemy so that it can no longer be said of him that he exists
except as he exists in you. — E.L. Doctorow

But I learned more than you know from Owen Paris. I learned that trying to live up to imagined expectations is a waste of energy. I learned that nothing can replace the time I spend with my daughter every day. I learned much too late that his way of loving me was just his way. I learned too late that he loved me at all. He chose his career over his children. He left us with you, and you are a great mom. But every day he wasn't there was another day I spent wondering what I had done wrong and why he didn't care enough to be with me. "My children are never going to wonder that. I'm going to be there for every birthday, every school assembly, every science fair, every bad grade, every fight on the playground, every good-night kiss, every messy, hard, frustrating, perfect moment of it. — Kirsten Beyer