Avotaco Quotes & Sayings

I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate. — Benoit Lecomte

One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate. — Nancy Mairs

Two more [birds added to her cage]. I call them the Wards in Jarndyce. They are caged up with all the others. With Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach!? - - - Miss Flite to Esther. [I thought a the last two a bit strange until I looked and saw the old definitions of gammon (as being double talk or obfuscation) and spinach (as being a spurious and unwanted growth). How appropriately summarized the situation! — Charles Dickens

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small. — Jim Rohn

If you'd just learn to do as I say from the beginning, I wouldn't have to follow up your errors with reproving smirks and repeated I-told-you-sos. — Richelle E. Goodrich

We were suppose to be like the birds. — Erin Bowman

In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals). — Peter Singer

Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim. — Jonathan Safran Foer

This is a business. Like any other business. — Walter Schloss

I always find a nice cup of tea and a few biscuits an excellent accompaniment to writing. — Claire H. Perkins

He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet ... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo ... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young? — Agatha Christie

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children. — Mahatma Gandhi

Maybe he doesn't date you but he is definitely dating me, Eva responded before I could
say anything. — Abbi Glines