Farewell Potluck Quotes & Sayings

This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph. — Bill Jay

A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied. — Robert Hugh Benson

From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute. — Judith Martin

I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall. — Jonah Hill

If I'm put in a situation where I am not really sure what's going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious. — Misty Copeland

The most confident of men are the ones who fall the hardest, she warned. — Melody Anne

...she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold their chemical breath. — Dow Mossman

The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony. — David Mitchell

[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation. — Voltairine De Cleyre

It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to - or you ignored at your peril. — Alexander McCall Smith

Sometimes it seems both our kids and our parents were smarter than we were. We fell somewhere between our parents' thirties idealism and our kids' eighties cynicism. Somewhere deep down we still believe that all we need is love, love, love. Somewhere deep down we question how we got grey hair. How on earth did we get to be the grown-ups?
The wonder is that our kids are growing up
despite all that we did to destroy them. — Erica Jong

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. — Andrei Platonov