Carlos Ponce Couples Retreat Quotes & Sayings

Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it. — Susan Neiman

I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are. — Ann Wilson

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. — Vladimir Nabokov

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it. — Mark Slouka

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too. — Baden Powell De Aquino

Little wonder that we ... find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom. — Robert Adams

Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya? — Frank Zappa

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow. — Robbie Williams

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let's pray for grace to live heavenly on earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know. — Vivian Gornick

I blame myself every night we lose. — Johnny Damon

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it. — Jamaica Kincaid