Hans Waldvogel Quotes & Sayings

She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about. — Alice Munro

almost everything is better than "living" in this shithole. Wait!! If my city is a shithole what does that make us?! — Abdullah Abu Snaineh

Today I ask you in the name of Christ and the Church, never tire of being merciful. — Pope Francis

Finally, we do become wise, but then it's too late — Steve Martin

They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast. — Sari Botton

There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
His words spoke truth and pen's stroke was bold,
His only motive: lives to mould — Adhish Mazumder

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts — Rory Miller

The greatest domestic terrorists in the USA are either working for the corporate government or are funding it. — Steven Magee

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending. — Bobby Fischer

One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure. — Alessandra Stanley

I hate getting old," Violet said. "I do, too. But the alternative is worse. — Joanna Bourne