Detouring Thru Maine Quotes & Sayings

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change. — James Salter

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen." — Paul Tillich

We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned to their church, and some still do. Counterintuitively, people are now turning into themselves to find their roots. The way you do that is through your family tree. "Where did I come from?" There is an urge to preserve the names of the people who produced you. — Henry Louis Gates

It's only a game. It only resolves tiny, insignificant things. Such as who gets validation. Who gets listened to. It allocates power and draws boundaries and turns some people into stars and others into spectators. That's all. — Fredrik Backman

And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come - it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw. — Ally Carter

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may? — William Makepeace Thackeray

Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind. — Matthew Arnold

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment. — Val Kilmer

A lost men is not direction based but self-seeking outside God — Evans Biya

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! — Anna Garlin Spencer

Writing is like headlice, impossible to fully cure. — Steve Merrick

I guess because, well, just because it was able to evolve. When it couldn't be one thing anymore, it became something else and kept on living that way — Cherie Priest

If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative. — Scott Boras