Blaschke Funeral Quotes & Sayings

Lord Maccon was Scottish-big; this gentleman was only English-big - there was a distinct difference. — Gail Carriger

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth. — Pope Benedict XVI

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world. — Vance Bourjaily

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail. — Michael Kenna

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities. — Aesop

The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice ... if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy. — William L. Marcy

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family. — Mother Teresa

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable. — Martin Fleischmann

Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on for support. — Jay McInerney

It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel. -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow — Lilith Saintcrow

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence. — Christine Baranski

Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. — John Irving

I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person. — Claudia Rankine

We have both been given the same wish to survive, We are all, you see, toys of the life-force. It made you numerically stronger, but mentally undeveloped. It made us mentally strong but physically weak: now it has set us at one another, to see what will happen. A cruel sport perhaps, from both our points of view, but a very very old one. Cruelty is as old as life itself. There is some improvement: humour and compassion are the most important of human inventions; but they are not very firmly established yet, though promising well. But the life-force is a lot stronger than they are; and it won't be denied its blood-sports. — John Wyndham

I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that. — Kim Wilde