Carshenah Jefferson Quotes & Sayings

you make autumn mist
taste like champagne

and turn winter rain
into the elixir of life itself. — Sanober Khan

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. — E.B. White

Environmentalism has failed. — David Suzuki

What does a woman have to do to be seen as a serious person?"
"Be a man, I guess," Ethan said ... — Meg Wolitzer

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. — Barbara Deming

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night. — Haruki Murakami

We are forever becoming! We never arrive, as long as we are on this side of Heaven there is more to learn. — DeBorrah K. Ogans

I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that. — Eugene Levy

Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated ... to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war. — Abba Eban

Plunder has matured into habit and addiction; the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos, the mass rape of private prisons, then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. — D.H. Lawrence

We have to remember that the way things are is not the only possible way that they could be. — William Alexander