Cloitre Des Quotes & Sayings

It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it. — Jean Shrimpton

More than anything, she wanted to be someplace warm and safe
but duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit. — Jim Butcher

In other words, it was unavoidable, and probably inevitable, so we might as well close our minds and accept that 16.5 million people had to die. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, it is time to re-examine these sops of self-exculpation, which posterity still largely applauds or tolerates, aided by recent histories that re-peddle the myths that the governments of Europe groped blindly towards war; or that Germany was solely responsible for the catastrophe, and thus had to be vanquished and utterly destroyed. — Paul Ham

We don't always get everything. And sometimes we worry too much about our circumstances. We think oh I'll be happy when I get my job back, or I'll be happy when I get a man back, but it's really about allowing God to give us joy now. — Bonnie St. John

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It's a modern Republican thing. — Paul Krugman