Ideas For Cousins Reunions Quotes & Sayings

There were times when he confronted his own image as a man confronts an empty valley, and the vision propelled him forward again to experience as despair compels us to extinction. Sometimes he was like a man in flight, but running toward the enemy, desperate to feel upon his vanishing body the blows that would prove his being; desperate to imprint upon his sad conformity the mark of real purpose, desperate perhaps, as Leclerc had hinted, to abdicate his conscience in order to discover God. — John Le Carre

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out. — Virginia Postrel

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about. — Leo Tolstoy

We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect. — Evan Meekins

You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said.
The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said. I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. — Cormac McCarthy

Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises. — C.E.M. Joad

It flopped into my leg, leaving a vile, dark smear of disgusting on my jeans. Brilliant. — Kiersten White

Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle. — Oriana Fallaci

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete, our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it, 'can there be such a language?' there is, when engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation, they use math, they use descriptive systems, if I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it: you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning — Jacque Fresco

I was a young girl the first time I learned about the concept of paying it forward. — Lynn Schusterman

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. — Mark Twain

All things want to open. You must feel
that need, and use it ...
And then, suddenly, she understands, and,
somewhere in her heart, she lets it be what it wants to be ... and it opens. — Neil Gaiman