Cassowary Kin Quotes & Sayings

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse. — Miguel De Cervantes

Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping."
"That's too easy," he said.
"On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult. — Elizabeth George

I'm afraid of flying. — Allison Janney

The world makes up my pictures, not me. — Lee Friedlander

I did not pray Him to lay bare
The mystery to me,
Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see. — Ralph Hodgson

It is false to believe that the scale of fears corresponds to that of the dangers which inspire them. One might be frightened of sleeplessness and yet not of a duel, of a rat and not of a lion. — Marcel Proust

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will. — Friedrich Nietzsche

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete. — Mason Cooley

With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel. — Robert Gottlieb

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings ... The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Most people, if you give them a book, they sniff around on it awhile, then try to eat it. — Leonardo Da Vinci

We are trying to retrain our responses and form mental habits that are kinder, gentler, and less fearful of others. — Karen Armstrong

I wasn't always a revolutionary, I used to live life like a criminal even though I was going through high school or college, or the fact that I was smart, had no bearing on that. People can have intelligence all the way but have no direction. Not all criminals are idiots. — Immortal Technique

Nothing. Just - I really don't consider myself a Christian. If there is a God, and if He really loves me, then why did all that stuff have to happen? None of it makes sense." "Trust me." Austin lets out a sigh. "I know what you mean." I shiver. Are these sudden chills brought on by the sincerity in Austin's voice, or by the light breeze coming off the lake? "But you know," he continues, "without the dark, we'd never see the stars. There also would be no use for the moon if there was never a night." I — Tessa Emily Hall

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular. — Arthur Baer