Counterpane Poem Quotes & Sayings

Those who can command themselves command others. — William Hazlitt

We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also a big house."
Daniel could not resist asking, because he really wanted to know. "Need they be mutually exclusive? Can't we have both love and house?"
Joe smiled. "Certainly. But one must consider carefully how one goes about getting the house. — Susan Trott

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die — Steve Biko

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it. — Benjamin Minge Duggar

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. — William Bennett

I knew who I was. I was a celebrity without talent. I was an heiress. I was a whore. I was a party waiting to happen. I was an addict. I was his, and in that last definition - that I was owned by Deacon I knew my place in the chaos. — C.D. Reiss

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat. — Preet Bharara

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious. — John Crowley

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. — Abraham Lincoln

Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans. — Barack Obama

After all those years of people counting off seconds in her earpiece, I swear she has time wired into every bit of her body, so that it was almost exactly an hour when she climbed out. — Anna Quindlen

You know, there's more to being an evil despot then getting cake whenever you want it."
"If that's what you think, then you're DOING IT WRONG! — Phil Foglio

Many events plant seeds, imperceptible at the time, that bear fruit long afterward. — Rebecca Solnit