Georgeana Bobos Kristof Quotes & Sayings

There's no new news, just old news with new dates — Henry David Thoreau

I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around. — Joyce Rupp

Still afraid of pain behind my four-day beard. — Charles Bukowski

Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking. — Anthony Daniels

The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood. — Michael Chabon

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend. — Kathy Valentine

I want to touch your boob any time I see you and talk to you. It doesn't matter the topic of conversation." I — Tijan

You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and me so! It worries us dreadfully! Oh, of course we understand all about the Little Baby Christ! And the camels! And the wise men! And the frankincense! That's easy! But who is Santa Claus? Unless - unless - ?" It was Carol himself who signaled me to go on. "Unless - he's the Baby Christ's grandfather?" I thought Derry Willard looked a little bit startled. Carol's ears turned bright red. "Oh, of course - we meant on his mother's side!" I hastened to assure him. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa

I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty. — Confucius

Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky. — Andrew Skurka

What do I want? What kind of question is that? I want what everybody wants. I want someone who has my back. I want someone's name to put in the space after "in an emergecy please call." I want someone who will drink the other half of the bottle of wine so I don't. And someone to make it worth sitting down at an actual table to eat. I want someone who's dying to get home after a long day because I'm going to be there. — Claire Cook

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him. — Charles Spurgeon