Averagely Pretty Quotes & Sayings

These beliefs were mainly Protestant but not yet petty middle-class puritanism: there remained still an element fairly high stepping and wide gestured in its personal conduct. The petty middle class of fundamentalists who saw no difference between wine-drinking, dancing, card-playing, and adultery, had not yet got altogether the upper hand in that part of the country - in fact, never did except in certain limited areas; but it was making a brave try. — Katherine Anne Porter

Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue. — Elizabeth Carter

Today will be a beautiful day. What beautiful things will today bring me? — Zach Even-Esh

If I Had A Car By Ted Summerfield Title: If I Had A Car Author: Ted Summerfield Published by Miown Publishing Copyright July 2011 Ted Summerfield Cover by: Ted Summerfield ISBN: 978-0-9868804-6-9 — Ted Summerfield

I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era. — Connie Willis

It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit. — Jeremy Sumpter

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again. — Guy Laliberte

Carter said, "You drenched yourself in the worst-smelling thing you could find so you could cover up the smell of your boner." "Stop saying boner!" He waggled his eyebrows at me. I glared at him. He said, "It's about time." And so I said, "What?" He squinted at me. "You and Joe." "What about me and Joe?" "Seriously. That's what you're going with." It was either that or have a panic attack. "Yes," I said. "That's what I'm going with." "It's okay," he said. "You're allowed to have a boner for my seventeen-year-old brother." I — T.J. Klune

I'll never give up being into trying to change the world. — Genesis P-Orridge

Sketch your dreams,color it and days will make it real. — Mohammed Sekouty

As long as we have books, we are not alone. — Laura Bush

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When times are rough,I like to remember the old saying - Whatever doesn't kill you, might just come back to finish the job. — A.G. Claymore

like a prancing horse, shouting at Richard — Tony Lewis

Familiarity reduces insecurity, so we feel more comfortable describing and combating the risks we think we understand: terrorists, immigrants, job loss or crime. But the true sources of insecurity in decades to come will be those that most of us cannot define: dramatic climate change and its social and environmental effects; imperial decline and its attendant 'small wars'; collective political impotence in the face of distant upheavals with disruptive local impact. These are the threats that chauvinist politicians will be best placed to exploit, precisely because they lead so readily to anger and humiliation. — Tony Judt