Emberiza Melanocephala Quotes & Sayings

Time is like this boat that you are on. You can't see who is steering it, but it is taking you to weird unknown and sometimes awful or terrifying places. — Lesley Choyce

The engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth. — Sarah Josepha Hale

We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into you every which way that you've got to get married and you've got to have babies. That you're not a natural woman if you don't. So that led to a lot of sitting by the telephone and waiting for a call. And that led you into a culture in which you were always in a subordinate position without realizing it; hamstrung, not able to take action. That was the most important thing: you were always waiting to be desired. — Vivian Gornick

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it. — Albert Einstein

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't. — Garrison Keillor

Her Dream Prince, Gee Gee, was, then, and of course still might be, though I'd always thought of a Dream Prince as having more hair and less avoirdupois. — Leslie Ford

It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor. — Cassandra Clare

Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity? — Milan Kundera

So you say, like, 'Hey tree, fix Finn,' and the tree is like, 'Okay, shazam, done. — Elle Casey

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver. — Torrey Smith

Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows. — Bernie Sanders

He wants to get back together," she finished.
"And you said ... ?" he tried to keep his tone disinterested.
"I haven't said anything," she said. "You interrupted me before I could answer him."
He congratulated himself on his excellent timing. — Jena Leigh

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta