Delicatessens In Secaucus Quotes & Sayings

The moral of the story, Son," Pun would say, "is Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off on your heels."
Of all lessons, that one I never learned and I hope I never do. My heart daily grows new foliage, always adding people, picking up new heartaches like a wool coat collects cockleburs and beggar's-lice seeds. It gets fuller and fuller as I walk slow as a sloth, carrying all the pain Pun and Frank and so many others tried to walk from. Especially the pain of the lost forest. Sometimes there is no leaving, no looking westward for another promised land. We have to nail our shoes to the kitchen floor and unload the burden of our heart. We have to set to the task of repairing the damage done by and to us. — Janisse Ray

When you experience being present, there is no separation between you and other things. If you feel separate, you are already out of the present and returned to your familiar land of names and concepts. — Ilchi Lee

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread. — Lynda Obst

In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child." — Nicholas Negroponte

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties. — Stanley Hoffmann