Barsotti Vineyard Quotes & Sayings

You don't give a gift to shape someone into the person you want him to be. You give a gift because it's something you couldn't bear to be without, but it's even more unthinkable for the other person to be without it. — Will Chancellor

So she looked upon the wolves, who were dwindling in number, and back at the humans who no longer cared for their own, and combined their spirits. She took the loyal, protective, possessive natures of the wolf and took the intelligence, emotions, and love of the human and brought them together. She designed us to be a pack. — Quinn Loftis

Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect. — Salman Rushdie

Sometimes it's easier to be the one who leaves than the one who is left behind. — Maurine F. Dahlberg

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light. — Bruce Cockburn

Intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible — Herman Melville

Hell, yeah," Steve replied, his chocolate brown eyes wide with wonder. "I love the supernatural." "Dude, we are the supernatural," Chris replied. — Jody Morse

Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to bend without breaking ourselves. -Crepusculo Lepidoptera — F. Sionil Jose

Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality. — Menna Anwar

Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table. — Laura Prepon

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. — Henry Steele Commager

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with. — Dorothy Dunnett

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime. — Edith Wharton

Make your dreams worth more than your sleep. — Eyden I.