Figureheads Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Some car had hit it after all, because it hadn't had the courage to honor its own correct instinct. And I began to cry because I had this thought about people, that they do this all the time, deny the wise voice inside them telling them the right thing to do because it is different. I remembered once seeing a tea party some little girls had set up outside, mismatched china, decorations of a plucked pansy blossom and a seashell and a shiny penny and a small circle of red berries and a fern, pressed wetly into the wooden table, the damp outline around it a beautiful bonus. They didn't consult the Martha Stewart guide for entertainment and gulp a martini before their guests arrived. They pulled ideas from their hearts and minds about the things that gave them pleasure, and they laid out an offering with loving intent. It was a small Garden of Eden, the occupants making something out of what they saw was theirs. Out of what they truly saw. — Elizabeth Berg

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference. — D. Elton Trueblood

A person who is in the elements of his own is often
thrown to a situation to be shown all alone; and people who aren't may
be in a position seen by all, but they are often unknown to be utterly
lone. — Anuj

I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy. — Jennifer Saunders

A lot of things inspire me, but I would have to say the main thing that drives me is music. — Witney Carson

I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them
that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live. — Leo Tolstoy

Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging. — Deepak Chopra

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. — G.K. Chesterton

Lillian walked into every room as if she owned it. She walked across this one as if she owned it but was slightly horrified to find herself there, like a queen in a basement. — Sarah Rees Brennan

They had failed to understand that there was no such thing as private life in wartime Germany. No amount of reticence could change the fact that every individual German belonged to the generality of Germans and must share in the general destiny of Germany, even as more and more bombs were falling on the just and unjust alike. — Hans Fallada

Oooooo ... pity. My favorite snack next to dog shit. Lucian Roman — Laura Wright

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated. — James E. Faust