Hennigans Point Quotes & Sayings

Gratitude takes less energy than anger. — Kristin Cashore

No more apologies," he says. "I don't want you to think I'm holding something over you. I'm not. This isn't a favor. This is just love. — Heather Cocks

Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish - separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the distinctions we make between the two. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I thought I was leading them, but the truth was, I was just following them, holding up a lantern. — Nancy E. Turner

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching. — Sontag, Susan

I remember the first story I wrote. It truly sucked. But I kept working at it, and look where I am today. — Anna Glazebrook

The sentimentality of kitsch is a sign of its falseness. But it is also a sign of its extravagance. Unanchored to reality, sentimentality is naturally unbounded. Kitsch is a response to a failure or disintegration of cultural values. When the world no longer speaks meaningfully to us, we shout into the void and pretend the echoes come to us from on high.

The grandiosity of kitsch is in proportion to the existential poverty out of which it arose. In this context, it is worth noting a limitation of that dictionary definition of kitsch. The sentimentality of kitsch can be "sweet," but it can also be sour, malignant. — Roger Kimball

The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally . — Martha Beck

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up. — Nora Ephron

We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled across the street for Miss Maudie to come marry him. Miss Mauide would yell back, "Call a little louder, Jack Finch, and they'll hear you the post office, I haven't heard you yet!" Jem and I thought this a strange way to ask for a lady's hand in marriage, but then again Uncle Jack was rather strange. — Harper Lee