Berthilde Coles Quotes & Sayings

I assumed it was a matter of time. One day I'd meet someone who counteracted my chemical structure. We would compete for supremacy, collide until one of us was forced to yield, or else go forth together, suspended in eternal stalemate. But my model is inaccurate. The poets are wrong. The opposite of ice isn't fire. It's water. — Brenna Yovanoff

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life. — Basil Hume

A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world. — Grace Paley

Sometimes you caught a break, but outright freebies?
Never. — Stephen King

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater. — Ellen Pompeo

Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Her grandmother used to say something about how the air around you will turn white when things are about to change. — Sarah Addison Allen

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. — Walt Whitman

What is best for people is what they do for themselves. — Benjamin Franklin

She felt something deeper and richer with Dave, something driven by years and commitment, but maybe that was just fancy talk. That sort of electricity - had she ever felt it with her husband? Was it fair to even compare or think such things? Were such thoughts alone a betrayal? You — Harlan Coben

Nothing is my last word on anything. — Henry James

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life. — Pope Francis