Donato Bramante Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is painful to remember what and who we've lost, but it's also comforting. Grief can become its own comfort...the moment when grief itself overtakes the one grieved. When they become one and the same, so that we fear grief's retreat as much as we feared the beloved's passing. — Jessica Mesman Griffith

Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural neatness which the housewife sees somehow shadowing her familiar furniture, it was largely possible to disregard, or not-quite-hear, Sally, but in the car I was entirely what I believe is called a captive audience. — Shirley Jackson

If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, 15 all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust. — Anonymous

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football. — Peter Capaldi

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions. — Brian Tracy

The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. — Vladimir Lenin

Often individuals whose mental gifts so far outpaced their contemporaries, tended to lack the social graces commensurate with their other accomplishments. — Kirsten Beyer

Not only good to be alive, but nice to come with a stranger. Intimacy? For now I want nothing of it. I am simply trying to emerge from the violent unnecessariness of death. — Luke Davies

Even if we are separated from people, and even if there is no other gift which we can give to them, we can surround them with the strength and the defence of our prayers. — William Barclay