Family And Love On Plaques Quotes & Sayings

I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach. — Clarice Lispector

The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more. — David K. Shipler

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody.
He was. He was going to shake hands with death.
He wasn't particularly frightened. Not that he was particularly brave. It was just that he didn't have very much imagination. Rationalizing, he knew that he wasn't going to be alive anymore ten minutes from now. Yet he wasn't used to casting his imagination ten minutes ahead of him, he'd always kept it by him in the present. He couldn't visualize it. So he wasn't as unnerved by it as the average man would have been.
("3 Kills For 1") — Cornell Woolrich

You can change your home. You know that. You do it every day. — Merrilee Boyack

The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith - and faith will triumph. — Joseph Joffre

He smelled like family ... and Javier, but I took that as a good sign. — R.K. Lilley

The organic produce guy, a young man who'd left Brooklyn in order to minimize his carbon footprint and consume only things he could make or grow himself. This had come to involve ... going toilet-paper free the year before, and making his wife use discarded athletic socks for her monthly cycle.'That poor girl!' said Sylvie, privately resolving to figure out where the young woman was living and anonymously deliver some tampons, the really bad kind, with non biodegradable plastic applicators. — Jennifer Weiner

I don't eat sushi, but I eat cooked meat. — Drake Bell

The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire it ... The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it, and it will not only trample upon the Holy, but also will tear apart those who force it on them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If the door is locked, try the window. — Lynn Caine

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time. — Nicholas Kristof

Chess is a sport. A violent sport. — Marcel Duchamp

Bad poetry is almost always bad because it attempts to claim for itself the real power of whatever it describes in ten lines: a sky full of stars, first love, or Niagara Falls. — Annie Dillard