Duppy Ghost Quotes & Sayings

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. — A.S. Byatt

I'm trying to find a way to say I want it to be more than sex. I have feelings for you that go way past sexual. — Christina Lauren

The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder. — Jeff Sessions

If I've sounded a wee bit overwrought in recent columns, it's because America is seizing up before our eyes. And I'm a little bewildered by how many Americans can't see it. I see that chap at LaGuardia with Don't Tread on Me on his chest and government bureaucrats in his pants. And I wonder if America's exceptional attitudinal swagger isn't providing a discreet cover for the withering of liberty. Sometimes an in-your-face attitude blinds you to what's going on under your nose. — Mark Steyn

Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are? — Ann Voskamp

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How bright such memories seem when the life they catalogue is threatened! Afterwards, — Kate Morton

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be ... — William Wordsworth

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny. — Ludwig Von Mises

I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK. — Reese Witherspoon

One of the remarkable things about being 19 is that you can break open a case of warm beer at midnight and still be wide-eyed and alert for your eight-a.m. class. And that gave me the false impression that my life would always be like that. — David Letterman