Canzona By Mennin Quotes & Sayings

In 2010, I was 17 or 18 and thought, 'Yeah, the Olympics, that might happen.' — Ashley Wagner

All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more. — Betty Smith

... my century..is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form ... . — Whittaker Chambers

Start with an honest analysis of why you are in opposition, not in government. — Philip Gould

Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet". — Christopher J. Pumphrey

What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem? — Francesca Lia Block

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could. — Rufus Sewell

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence that preceded the war, that the horrors of the trenches sparked the final blossoming, as friction gives rise to fire; that the daily nightmare unfolding before the soldiers sharpened their sense of beauty, prophecy, and mission. — Philip Zaleski

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body. — Dani Shapiro

And that night he couldn't sleep, but lay looking out at the light June night which was full of lonely whisperings and rustlings and the pattering of feet. The air was sweet with the smell of flowers. — Tove Jansson

Jenny Fleming merely looked exasperated. 'That young man,' she said, 'ought to be plucked out of his pride and impaled on a thornbush. He introduced me to someone as the Controller of the King's Beam, last time we met.' Which at least had the merit of making her daughter laugh, if a little wildly. — Dorothy Dunnett

If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them ... that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life. — Ayn Rand

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go. — Chris Pine

Because I can't look at you. Because all I want to do is touch you. Because I want to hunt and kill everyone who ever hurt you. Because healing you is personal to me. Because I'm going to fall in love with you. — C.D. Reiss