Fractiousness Webster Quotes & Sayings

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace. — Haim Shapira

I'm just more comfortable in my own skin now. — Michelle Branch

Pain
Waves are the sea's white daughters,
And raindrops the children of rain,
But why for my shimmering body
Have I a mother like Pain?
Night is the mother of stars,
And wind the mother of foam
The world is brimming with beauty,
But I must stay at home. — Sara Teasdale

In the old days, you lived in one neighborhood, you knew all your neighbors and your daughter married the guy next door. That was social and economic progress. That model is gone now. We also had a world order that was fraught but fairly stable. — Henry Louis Gates

I am not, nor will I ever be, that irritating creature called a morning person. — Lee Roland

Dreams are part of our human survival kit, part of what has kept us going, and evolving on this planet. Across history most people have valued dreaming for two reasons beyond all others: because dreams enable us to see into the possible future, and because they put us in touch with sources of knowledge and wisdom beyond the ordinary mind. — Robert Moss

People have this vision of me as a conservative person, but I'm actually quite adventurous. — Tsai Ing-wen

In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang. — Jesse Sheidlower