Gwenneth Clarke Quotes & Sayings

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Grace becomes not only the means by which God once justified us, it is also the means by which we are continually encouraged and enabled to serve him with undiminished delight. — Bryan Chapell

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. — Andrew Marvell

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long. — Tom Baker

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder. — Russell L. Ackoff

I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies. — Halsey

Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows. — Bernie Sanders

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that. — Beau Bridges

My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age. — Bo Jackson

You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty. — Danny Glover

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it. — Richard P. Feynman

Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battary. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights. — Blue Balliett