Fioralba Lummen Quotes & Sayings

Mad people all live a long time - you know, every grief has its good side. — Ivan Turgenev

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love. — Candace Bushnell

It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her. — Mary Roach

Who are you?"

Ethan Nakamura. I have to kill you." ?? — Rick Riordan

My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going. — John Edward

Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it. — Brian McGreevy

Joy and patience are far above our strength ... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint ... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer. — John Calvin

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night. — Gertrude Stein

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. — Ronald Reagan

My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing. — Rodney Dangerfield

Speak the truth.
Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently,
and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power.
Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence.
All growth is not good.
The environment is a necessity, not a luxury.
There is such a thing as enough. — Donella Meadows

the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings. — Amanda Lovelace

When you're a little bit dumb and naive things get done that no one believed could be done. — John Peterman

Autumn was his favourite time of year, not simply for its changing colours but for the crispness in the air and the sharpness of the light. As the leaves fell the landscape revealed itself, like a painting being cleaned or a building being renewed. He could see the underlying shape of things. This was what he wanted, he decided: moments of clarity and silence. — James Runcie