Friedrich Von Wieser Quotes & Sayings

Joan of Arc had led armies when she was hardly older than Harriet. Yet, for Christmas last year, Harriet's father had given Harriet an insulting board game for girls called What Shall I Be? It was a particularly flimsy game, meant to offer career guidance but no matter how well you played, it offered only four possible futures: teacher, ballerina, mother, or nurse. — Donna Tartt

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. — Libba Bray

B, I swear, if you call her a cougar to her face, I will buy you a car." Carwyn snickered. "A house. Maybe even an island. — Elizabeth Hunter

The darkness still looms over my head, threatening to rain down on me. Some days it does, only now I have people there to help me dry off before it seeps into my bones. — Nicola Haken

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live. — Eleanor Porter

A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others.

-Ben, Barnyard — Steve Oedekerk

No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing. — Cokie Roberts

You can change anything you want to change, and you can do it very fast. That's another satanic suckerpunch - that it takes years and years and eons of eternity to repent. It takes exactly as long to repent as it takes you to say, 'I'll change' - and mean it. . . . You may well spend - indeed you had better spend - the rest of your life proving your repentance by its permanence. But change, growth, renewal, and repentance can come for you as instantaneously as for Alma and the sons of Mosiah. — Robert Reynolds

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples. — William Morris Hunt