Gossamer Lois Lowry Quotes & Sayings

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool. — Bill Kurtis

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them. — Lulu Guinness

Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad. — Iain Duncan Smith

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books. — Thomas Carlyle

Imagine who you could be, what you could accomplish-if only you could get out of your own way. — Staci Backauskas

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled? — Mordecai Richler

If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have. — George Bernard Shaw

God's grace is all we need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The palace was beautiful and cold. Each room was different, displaying one rich color after another. Wide pillars and reliefs decorated each room, quartz giving way to marble, marble giving way to onyx, malachite, and granite. While the memory of Mount Olympus from her one childhood visit was hazy, she most clearly remembered the stark white walls and absence of color. The Palace of Hades was its opposite and spoke to its master's dominion over everything that lay within the earth. — Rachel Alexander

The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader. — Evelyn Underhill

I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart. — Laurie McBain

You're your own problem — Thabiso Monkoe

You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with - maybe you'll stay with yourself, too. — C. JoyBell C.