Disconsolating Quotes & Sayings

America is better when all of us take care of all of us. — Christopher Reeve

I can't be sure, of course, but I'd compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen — Stephenie Meyer

Marriage
yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes. — Mark Twain

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval. — Leonard Rossiter

The challenge for the IT leader is to set the right priority, manage the limited budget and resource, to "Do more with innovation. — Pearl Zhu

You say goodbye to the people you love thousands of times in a lifetime: every time they walk out of the front door; every time you hang up the phone; every waved farewell. You just never know which of those goodbyes is going to be the last one. — Dani Atkins

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect. — Jean De La Bruyere

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible. — Rollo May

The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters. — Pete Hamill

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work. — John Ruskin

My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone. — Byron Katie

Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one. — Jami Attenberg

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested. — Paul McCartney

I haven't tried anything like this since the accident."
"I believe in you," I say. I mostly do.
"I'm just saying that there's a very small but not statistically insignificant chance that this care could explode."
"Mike!"
"Fine! — John David Anderson