Fusses By A Mirror Quotes & Sayings

It was not an end, it was a beginning. — Madeleine L'Engle

They found a thick tree that had fallen, the tangled roots exposed. They saw the drenched ground that had given way. The tree seemed more overwhelming when it lay on the ground. Its proportions frightening, once it no longer lived. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free. — Denzel Washington

Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be. — Mark Victor Hansen

During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society. — Harriet Martineau

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. — William Safire

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year. — Lord Byron

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different
in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness. — Robert A. Heinlein

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party. — Richard J. Daley

the eyes see faster than the hand moves — RaeAnne Thayne

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life. — Chuck Palahniuk

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now. — George H. W. Bush

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes. — James Otis

Most of my friends wonder why I get these roles that are so masculine and tough. I think it's my Polish temperament that comes up. — Izabella Scorupco