Dear Lord Baby Jesus Quotes & Sayings

He explained what he saw in her eyes, which was not sadness or disappointment but understanding. Sympathy, he said, and wit. At some level sympathy implied knowledge and knowledge had a melancholy aspect. He believed that was universally true, no exceptions. When you knew too much you felt a natural distress but that was something quite different from fundamental personal sadness, sadness as a trait, like blue eyes. Her distress was not temperamental but intellectual. — Ward Just

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare
but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. — James A. Baldwin

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so. — C.S. Lewis

She talked like that. But I understood what she meant. About having another you inside that isn't anything like you. Dorcas and I used to make up love scenes and describe them to each other. It was fun and a little smutty. Something about it bothered me, though. Not the loving stuff, but the picture I had of myself when I did it. Nothing like me. I say myself as somebody I'd seen in a picture show or a magazine. Then it would work. If I pictured myself the way I am it seemed wrong. — Toni Morrison

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way. — Martin Luther

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is! — Seth Grahame-Smith

He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen — Lesley Howarth

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views. — Sharon Begley

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book. — Robert Sylvester

If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it. — Courtney Kupets

Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A — Rita Mae Brown

The turtle whose head
Is within his shell
Thinks the world outside
Is going well. — Carol Kendall

What is a family without love? And by family I don't just mean a packed kitchen table with a hoard of children around it. A family can be made up of any number of people. Me and my fiancee are our own little family, a family of two (and the dog!), and our love is at the heart of that. — Pink

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement. — James F. Byrnes

The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous. — Richard Thaler