Fleurance Tufted Quotes & Sayings

Kindness is soft and humble like water, but it is the ultimate power of life. — Debasish Mridha

And except on a certain kind of winter evening - six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that - except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it. — Joan Didion

I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities. — Alice Walton

Conversion may mean changing one's mind, overcoming prejudices, looking at things differently. Someone has remarked that conversatio means never having to say, 'But we've always done it this way. — Benet Tvedten

Partly by accident, partly by instinct, partly by deliberate contrivance, he was the first intellectual systematically to exploit the guilt of the privileged. And he did it, moreover, in an entirely new way, by the systematic cult of rudeness. He was the prototype of that characteristic figure of the modern age, the Angry Young Man. — Paul Johnson

To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all. — Loraine Boettner

I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't. — Antony Beevor

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for ... describing a scene will be found to be very small. — Elizabeth Bowen

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words ... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. — Alan W. Watts

There's a quote from 'The Breakfast Club' that goes "We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it." I have it on a poster but I took a Sharpie to it and scratched out the word "hiding" because it reminds me that there's a certain pride and freedom that comes from wearing your unique bizarreness like a badge of honor. — Jenny Lawson

Sometimes the world we live in is a truly weird place. — Stephen King

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations. — Bill Bryson

He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow. — Robert Burton

I would give up all the sick days I had left for a few healthy ones. — John Green

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. — Winston S. Churchill