Gratitude By Lucille Clifton Quotes & Sayings

We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity. — H.M. Forester

I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains ... otherwise they wouldn't race. — Sid Watkins

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin. — Timothy Keller

A minimalist does not charge you for what he did. He charges you for what he did not do. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is better to work in a prison than to live in one. — Brenda Winters

Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'? — Jonathan Safran Foer

He saw with sudden awful clarity that if he turned tail now and if, by some appalling miracle, she should survive, he'd never hear the end of it. She'd latch onto his flawed character and hold it up for relentless ridicule till the end of time, or thereabouts. — Helen Hodgman

Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument. — Tristram Stuart