Gaily Sung Quotes & Sayings

Too many live in the future. If you keep living in the future, in what may be, then the future gets shorter every minute. — Karina Halle

Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. — Langston Hughes

He was sitting in the midst of a children's party at Harold's Cross. His silent watchful manner had grown upon him and he took little part in the games. The children, wearing the spoils of their crackers, danced and romped noisily and, though he tried to share their merriment, he felt himself a gloomy figure amid the gay cocked hats and sunbonnets.
But when he had sung his song and withdrawn into a snug corner of the room he began to taste the joy of his loneliness. The mirth, which in the beginning of the evening had seemed to him false and trivial, was like a sothing air to him, passing gaily by his senses, hiding from other eyes the feverish agitation of his blood while through the circling of the dancers and amid the music and laughter her glance travelled to his corner, flattering, taunting, searching, exciting his heart. — James Joyce

Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered. — Melody Beattie

Everything in life is writable ... — Sylvia Plath

When I get busy, I get stupid. — Austin Kleon

And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome. — Otto Schily

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me. — Ezra Pound

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas. — Bill Dedman