Christmas Wine Glasses Quotes & Sayings

As a volunteer reader to the blind, Babette had some reservations about the old gent's appetite for the unspeakable and seamy, believing that the handicapped were morally bound to higher types of entertainment. If we couldn't look to them for victories of the human spirit, who could we look to? They had an example to set just as she did as a reader and morale-booster. But she was professional in her duty, reading to him with high earnestness, as to a child, about dead men who leave messages on answering machines. — Don DeLillo

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve? — Namsoon Kang

Unfortunately, ... , all too often a joke tells the truth. — Aidan Chambers

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? — Charles Caleb Colton

You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. — China Mieville

Have confidence in God's character, love, and power. — Katy Kauffman

This book is dedicated to you.
Whether you are a Minion or a Skuttlebug or just, you know, a normal person, it's because of you that I get to do what I love and laughingly call it work.
I know some of you by name and some of you by sight (and some of you by smell, but let's not get into that) but there are still countless others I have never met, and to all of you I say thank you for your support, your passion, and your lunacy. — Derek Landy

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. — Dan Savage

You are perceptual beings with different vantage points and - it does not matter how much information is given - you cannot see beyond the vibrational limits of where you are standing. You cannot live or see or experience outside of your own individual beliefs. — Abraham Hicks

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities. — Thomas Piketty

Are you willing to have a little faith? What is faith? Sometimes it is described as a strong belief in something for which there is no proof. If that's the case, then faith is exactly what you need right now. — Jason Harvey

This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" My father told him no, very little company, the more was the pity. — Robert Louis Stevenson