Embroidery Near Me Quotes & Sayings

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. — Kevin Patterson

Being-'subject' means taking up a position from which an actor can make the transition from theory to practice. This transition usually takes place once an actor has found the motive that liberates them from hesitation and disinhibits them for action. — Peter Sloterdijk

Poppy was busy with needlework, stitching a pair of men's slippers with bright wool threads, while Beatrix played solitaire on the floor near the hearth. Noticing the way her youngest sister was riffling through the cards, Amelia laughed. "Beatrix," she said after Win had finished a chapter, "why in heaven's name would you cheat at solitaire? You're playing against yourself."
"Then there's no one to object when I cheat."
"It's not whether you win but how you win that's important," Amelia said.
"I've heard that before, and I don't agree at all. It's much nicer to win."
Poppy shook her head over her embroidery. "Beatrix, you are positively shameless."
"And a winner," Beatrix said with satisfaction, laying down the exact card she wanted. — Lisa Kleypas

Wait for the last possible moment to make a decision. — Frank Partnoy

Of this poetry
I'm left with the emptiness
of an endless secret — Giuseppe Ungaretti

That was the trouble with the supernatural, Vimbai thought
you didn't know what laws ruled it, and what was a coincidence and what was a sign and what was weird and what wasn't. It was like a whodunit, only the clues refused to be arranged into any sort of hierarchy or a straight narrative, and most of the time it wasn't even clear if they indeed were clues; a jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces were blank. — Ekaterina Sedia

Some cities bustle, some meander, I have read; London blazes and it incinerates. London is the wolf's maw. From the instant I arrived there, I loved every smoldering inch of it — Lyndsay Faye

He was serene, fulfilled, the real thing, the person no one wants to hear about, a happy man. — Paul Theroux

When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took several deep breaths. The — Roald Dahl

Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me. — Kevin Mitnick

Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven ... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love ... — Sarah

Meet your people where they are. They may not be as good as they can be, but they are as good as they believe they can be. They are waiting for you to lead them. — Susan C. Foster

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is. — Julie Delpy

You can't have everything, even in California — Raymond Chandler

Not wasting energy. It is the least sexy, but the single most important and always the least expensive. You would be very interested in a report by the McKinsey consulting firm that concluded that 40 percent of everything that we have to do to mitigate our emissions are net economic winners. They are cost effective and the most cost effective is not wasting energy. That's actually going to be the largest part of this whole journey, I believe - using less energy with the same beneficial results. — Jay Inslee