Avaitioncocktailaged1 Quotes & Sayings

I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing. — Harper Lee

They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses. — Dan Quisenberry

How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion. — Ernst Junger

Who, Abelard demanded, would forgive such a God for killing his own son? Abelard proposed that Christ died for the sake of love, providing a model of self-sacrificial passion for humankind. Salvation entailed imitating Christ in his love for others, the love that God revealed in Jesus's death for his friends. As Christ had done, we also do. As contemporary theologians Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Parker say of Abelard's view, "The atonement created a deeper love for God than would have been possible without it," creating the prospect that human hearts could be transformed "from fear to love."36 — Diana Butler Bass

If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story - Orson Welles — Orson Welles

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You may think there's nothing very interesting about seeing someone sleep, but that probably means you've never found the girl of your dreams. — Jodi Picoult

No sense in worrying about the past. It's not going to worry about you. — Chelsea M. Cameron

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror. — Carson McCullers

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. — Hunter S. Thompson

It is no coincidence that the term "voice" has come to mean in modern usage much more than just the sound made by the vocal organs, but also the means by which we make our individual selves known, not only to others but to ourselves. For the connection between the self and language is inseparable: it is through language that the self becomes. — Karen Swallow Prior

You, sir, are as twisted as a twelve-string banjo. - Willie Nelson to Sheriff Preston Bank — Ray Palla

I think we would look at other possibilities that would deliver further passenger capacity, that would deliver further infrastructure to the north of England but would be better value for taxpayers. — Andrea Leadsom