Cortesias Quotes & Sayings

A selfie is nothing more than just an external reflection of yourself — Munia Khan

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble. — Richard Bach

Just such a letter as you would write to your parents if they were living. 'These — Jean Webster

I know the mall is just a lot of fake plants and fake food and people buying crap for too much money, and at Christmas people pay for their kids to talk to Santa, learning greed the way some kids learn piano. I know all that. I can hear the Muzak, smell the waffle fries. Like everybody else, I walk around stuck inside a cliche, like we're stars of some TV show we plan to watch later, if nothing else is on. But still, there's something hopeful about this place, too, and maybe it takes having a crazy mother to get that. People buy stuff, because they think they are going to need it, because they think their lives are going to keep skipping down the same old path, and I want so much for that to be true for them that it nearly makes me cry. The mall says, Nothing is terrible. The mall says, Life is small and adequate. — Heather Hepler

There's no typical person [addicted to heroin]. It just has permeated every segment of society in Ohio. — Mike DeWine

Example is contagious behavior. — Charles Reade

And someone's face, whom you love, will be as a star
both intimate and ultimate,
and you will be both heart-shaken and respectful.
And you will hear the air itself, like a beloved, whisper:
oh, let me, for a while longer, enter the two
beautiful bodies of your lungs. — Mary Oliver

In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. Now, do I have to paint another picture for you, or do you think you can take it from here by yourself without screwing up? — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The life changing seems always bracketed by the mundane. The quotidian wrapped around the profound, like plain brown paper concealing the emotional version of an improvised explosive device. Then, in a single interminable moment, when we discover the bomb, absolutely everything changes. But when we recall it from our now forever-changed lives, when we start with the plain brown wrapping, it looks like every other package, every other morning, every other walk. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives — Brian L. Weiss

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. — James Longstreet

I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls. — Anushka Sharma