Efflorescent Quotes & Sayings

Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough. — Jane Green

But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. — Sigmar Gabriel

You do, eh? No one can really know what an immigrant has been through. What pain. What sacrifices. Once you remember that, the better." He held his gaze on Conor — Gordon Henderson

You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933 ... Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns. — Charles Krauthammer

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. — Mike Fitzpatrick

I thought he made me a different person altogether, but maybe I was always holding those pieces inside me, waiting for a chance to use them. — Brenna Yovanoff

That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation. — Sandra Cisneros