Bridge To Terabithia Jesse Quotes & Sayings

Of course, for whatever is amiss in these pages (and there will be much), the blame is mine. But permit me to be grateful if anything in them is true. — J. Budziszewski

As Cindy Sheehan was gathering public sympathy as the Gold Star mom against the killing in Iraq, the Republican party decided to import an easier target to pummel. So they brought over the 'I-salute-your-courage, Saddam' religious fundamentalist crack-pot who can't tell us where the money went. — Greg Palast

Yet again I was reminded that the way in which things and events unfold does not always coincide with our expectations. Indeed, this fact of life - that there is often a gap between the way in which we perceive phenomena and the reality of a given situation - is the source of much unhappiness. — Dalai Lama XIV

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics. — Catherynne M Valente

He enjoys the surprise on people's faces when he tells them he's a professor of American history. "Well, I am American," he says when people blink, a barb of defensiveness in his tone. Someone — Celeste Ng

An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality. — Walt Whitman

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all. — Nicolas Roeg

[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties. — David Lloyd George

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings. — Fran Lebowitz