Buttonhole Sewing Quotes & Sayings

What's on the outside to prevent their return? They are now convicted felons, a branding they will never be able to shake. The odds were stacked against them to begin with, and now that they're tagged as felons, life in the free world is somehow supposed to improve? These are the real casualties of our wars. The war on drugs. The war on crime. Unintended victims of tough laws passed by tough politicians over the past forty years. One million young black men now warehoused in decaying prisons, idling away the days at taxpayer expense. Our prisons are packed. Our streets are filled with drugs. Who's winning the war? — John Grisham

He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular — Aldous Huxley

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. — Michael Haneke

Each piece of glass is another piece of myself I gave to him.
It's too bad I didn't keep any pieces for myself. — Amanda Grace

The child you hold in your arms is your gift to a future that you will not see. Therefore, we must turn a blind eye to ourselves and selflessly pour the best of ourselves into our children while rigorously sifting out the worst of ourselves. And once we are utterly spent by such daring gestures, we will shockingly discover the resulting emptiness as astonishingly filled. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope. — Catherynne M Valente

Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain. — Gene Wolfe

I have my books and poetry to protect me — Paul Simon

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic. — Rae Foley