Function Url Quotes & Sayings

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life ... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these. — Charles Dickens

In the kitchen, her family nibbled Helen's lemon squares. Melanie urged brownies on the nurses. "Take these," she told Lorraine. "We can't eat them all, but Helen won't stop baking."
"Sweetheart," Lorraine said, "everybody mourns in her own way."
Helen mourned her sister deeply. She arrived each day with shopping bags. Her cake was tender with sliced apples, but her almond cookies crumbled at the touch. Her pecan bars were awful, sticky-sweet and hard enough to break your teeth. They remained untouched in the dining room, because Helen never threw good food away. — Allegra Goodman

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money. — Chuck Palahniuk

As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world. — Shantideva

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Every thing has a soul, every soul has emotions. — Paulo Coelho

Dude, you guys are closer than most married couples I know. Or you were before you decided to go and fuck with it. — Katee Robert

God help the man who ever really loves you. — Margaret Mitchell

Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and the in the end, despair. — C.S. Lewis

If you turn people away enough times, eventually they stop trying to find you. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do. — Thom Yorke

Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I've done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood. — Diane Duane

One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion ... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality. — Charles Eliot Norton

One day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle. — E.L. Doctorow