Harryette Mullens Sleeping Quotes & Sayings

It's a measure of how far I've come that I didn't bother to say, "This is impossible."
I'd gotten the hang of it now.
-Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (comics adaptation by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry) — Mike Carey

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music. — Al Madrigal

Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver. — A.B. Simpson

There is nothing in the Gospels to suggest that God causes the mob to come together against Jesus. Violent contagion is enough. Those responsible for the Passion are the human participants them-selves, incapable of resisting the violent contagion that affects them all when a mimetic snowballing1 comes within their range, or rather when they come within the range of this snowballing and are swept along by it. We don't have to invoke the supernatural to explicate this. The war of all against all that transforms communities into a war of all against one that gathers and unifies them is not limited solely to the case of Jesus. — Rene Girard

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before. — Lucretius

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems. — Ilya Ehrenburg

Finally, this exception may also allow for the admission of a statement to show the declarant's later conduct. The use of the statements in this way is consistent with the Supreme Court's decision in Mutual Life Ins. Co v. Hillmon. — Anonymous

However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot. — J.G. Ballard

Most people try to keep what they're losing or become depressed about what they can't maintain, but the right attitude is to accept change and have faith in a bright new future, because you must be aware of the opportunities that any calamity brings. — Daniel Marques