Beauvault Quotes & Sayings

Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day. — Craig Johnson

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow. — Franz Grillparzer

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates). — Chuck Todd

The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put restraints on "robber barons"-he might become one one day! — Joyce Carol Oates

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now ... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph. — George Saunders

Quite the narration in your head, even for a moment, and see for yourself that life is life, and not one minute of it is a retelling or a foretelling. Some things happen; some things don't. That's what makes it all worth seeing, no matter where it goes or how it ends. There is no spinmeister steering it all to a forgone conclusion. — Karen Maezen Miller

The only thing better than word of mouth is words of mouth. Give me at least two words. — Jarod Kintz

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's. — Stephen Colbert

Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all? — Dag Hammarskjold

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse. — Dalai Lama

She believed everything had held, that it would all be just as she had left it, that the years wouldn't dare swindle her of this homecoming. — Jaina Sanga