Cabanelf Quotes & Sayings

If you wait long enough, suddenly nothing will happen — Jack Gardner

You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy. — Michael Isikoff

History is the hallmark of humanity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The truly great books are flawed: The Brothers Karamazov is unwieldy in structure; a present-day editor would probably want to cut the Grand Inquisitor scene because it isn't necessary to the plot. For me The Brothers Karamazov is one of the greatest novels ever written, and this is perhaps because of, rather than in spite of, its human faults. — Madeleine L'Engle

For all those people who wanted to go on believing, but whose anger at God made it hard for them to hold on to their faith and be comforted by religion. — Harold S. Kushner

You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it. — Derek Williams

It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal. Objects and events may bring things to mind, but in the end they remain no more than what they are in fact. They begin only when you experience them, vanish when others follow. — Andrzej Stasiuk

Failure is an event, not a person. Think of failure as 'it' and not 'me'. — Jeffrey Gitomer

There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced. — Mavis Leno

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it. — Susan Sontag

As I gripped the hilt of the sword, my mind calmed and my body filled with purpose. This is who I was-this was what I knew how to do. I was a fighter. — Sara B. Larson

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy. — Leslie Jamison

I thought you would never find another love again. Oh, but you haven't missed a thing, no you haven't missed a thing. — Sara Quin

I think, for instance, that no one can really love a person who is not superior in every way. — Shirley Jackson