Geoghegan Canal Rigolets Quotes & Sayings

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble. — Junot Diaz

The best thing I've ever done for a girl hopefully is make them happy. Isn't that the most romantic thing you can do? — Douglas Booth

But most important, I see me . . . or rather, the me I've become. Because I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me me. And this was the very reason I decided to tell this story . . . to celebrate the strange, to give thanks for the bizarre, and to one day help my daughter understand that the reason her mother appeared mostly naked on Fox News (that's in book two, sorry) is probably the same reason her grandfather occasionally brings his pet donkey into bars: Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. Because there is joy in embracing - rather than running screaming from - the utter absurdity of life. And because it's illegal to leave an unattended donkey in your car, even if you do live in Texas. — Anonymous

I wanted to write. — Christopher Hitchens

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more. — Eric Shinseki

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was. — Marilynne Robinson

We must become the people we want our children to be. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Of course, thousands of years of traditional masculinity weren't going away without a fight. They lingered in the vestigial memories of men, occasionally challenging a decision to read the directions or wear argyle, hoping for a day when a hurtling piece of space rock will send the world back to a time before the advent of styling gels. — Matt K. Turner

I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans. — Barney Frank

We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind. — Pawan Mishra

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers. — Clive Anderson