Baetens Nursery Quotes & Sayings

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them? — Voltaire

If I could just have him until the day was over. Just a few more hours. But he was gone. I clasped my hand tightly over my mouth and felt a trembling that started deep inside move out to make all of me shake. I had a mighty impulse, it truly was mighty, to rise to my feet and howl. To overturn the chair and nightstand, to rip at my clothes, to bring down the very walls around us. But of course I did not do that. I pulled an elemental sense of outrage back inside and smoothed it down. I forced something far too big into something far too small, and this made for a surprising and unreasonable weight, as mercury does. I noticed sounds coming from my throat, little unladylike grunts. I saw that everything I'd ever imagined about what it would feel like when was pale. Was wrong. Was the shadow and not the mountain. And then, "It's all right," I said, quickly. "It's all right." To whom? I wondered later. — Elizabeth Berg

The 'crazy' thing about life is...
People keep 'imprisoning' themselves in the name of 'freedom'.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me. — Robert Carlyle

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. — Seamus Heaney

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. — Douglas Coupland

The loveliest flowers sometimes grow in the ugliest places. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance. — Gautama Buddha