Espair Quotes & Sayings

Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours — Stephen Colbert

The reality is that old houses that were built a hundred years ago were built by actual craftsmen, people who were the best in the world at what they did. The little nuances in the woodwork, the framing of the doors, the built-in nooks, the windows - all had been done by smart, talented people, and I quickly found that uncovering those details and all of that character made the house more inviting and more attractive and more alive. — Joanna Gaines

The kind of people who are satisfied with God are marked out as God's own. He is pleased with them, for they are pleased with him. They call him their God, and he calls them his people; he is satisfied to take them for a portion, and they are satisfied with him for their portion. There is a mutual communion of delight between God's Israel and Israel's God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Mom?" "Yes." "Nothing." "What is it, baby?" "Well it's just that wouldn't it be great if mattresses had spaces for your arm, so that when you rolled onto your side, you could fit just right?" "That would be nice." "And good for your back, probably, because it would let your spine be straight, which I know is important." "That is important." "Also, it would make snuggling easier. You know how that arm constantly gets in the way?" "I do." "And making snuggling easier is important." "Very. — Jonathan Safran Foer

(D)espair never lives long in young hearts — Louisa May Alcott

There was a Sears, Roebuck catalogue painfully twisted and shellacked and tied with a red cord. The white card beneath it said, An inexpensive doorstop." ... There were catsup bottles made into bud vases, closthespins decorated with crepe paper butterflies for use as curtin hold-backers, crocheted bags for silverware, bouquets of crepe paper and velvet flowers, an enormous funeral set piece of white organdy gardenias and dark green oilcloth leaves with REST IN PEACE spelled out in white pipe cleaners, embroidered pictures, burned wood match boxes, and fancy pillows by the hundreds. The pillows embraced every sentiment from FRANKY AND JOHNNY WERE LOVERS in black beads on a cerise satin background to the Twenty-Third Psalm in white on black velvet. It was an impressive exhibit of what loneliness can do to people. — Betty McDonald

It's hard to get rid of vampires. You have to drag them into the light.

-Cynthia D. Grant, Uncle Vampire — Cynthia D. Grant

True enjoy stories never ever have endings. — Richard Bach

Sometimes leaving is the only thing you can do. — Patrick Rothfuss

Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions. — Van Jones

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny? — Nicholas Kristof

As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals. — Alice S. Rossi

Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it."
"I'm sure I'll love it,then," I said, and he laughed. — Amanda Hocking

Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? — Robert De Niro