Bruce Nugent Quotes & Sayings

Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be. — Isabel Allende

I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face. — Inbee Park

At six
I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
avoiding myself,
my body, the suspect
in its grotesque house. — Anne Sexton

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. — Margaret Sanger

We have this one life, let's enjoy it, let's live it to the full and don't get so worked up about don't identify yourself so passionately with this business called religion. — Richard Dawkins

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now. — Alice Dreger

How does one go about getting an introduction to a fictional character? — Richard Bruce Nugent

Some gifts are a test, and others are a curse." He met my eyes seriously. "Which is yours? — Victoria Lamb

I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable
that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself,
that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as
well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor
memory; and then all of a sudden they stop. — Michel Houellebecq

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It is my earnest hope and indeed the hope of all mankind that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past ... The problem is basically theological, and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, and literature, and all material and cultural developments in the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. — Douglas MacArthur

It's nice to be chosen, to be that girl you have been searching for all your life. — Nikki Rowe

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. — Woodrow Wilson