Boisselle Obituary Quotes & Sayings

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem. — Toni Morrison

I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian. — Charles Darwin

bent ostentatiously to her work. — Gregory Maguire

The truth is, I would've felt empty anywhere. I realize now that through a million moments of adventure and excitement, I was only trying to make up for the one moment I wanted to forget. — Melissa Tagg

I could not stand it, neither the words on the page nor what they told me about myself. My neck and teeth began to ache, and I was not at all sure I really wanted to live with that stuff inside me. But holding onto them, reading them over again, became a part of the process of survival, of deciding once more to live
and clinging to that decision. — Dorothy Allison

The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation. — Alice Miller

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind. — Napoleon Hill

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred. — Elie Wiesel

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive. — Arca

The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot. — Serge Schmemann

Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong. — Seth Klarman

The Secret Service agents had been trained to think of every possible scenario...but nowhere in any training or manual was it ever mentioned that the width of the door on Air Force One was just a few inches too narrow for a casket. — Gerald Blaine

One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen. — George W. Bush

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters. — John Lasseter

Fie, fie, fond love, thou art so full of fear
As one with treasure laden, hemm'd with thieves;
Trifles, unwitnessed with eye or ear,
Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves. — William Shakespeare