Jacqueline Harpman Quotes & Sayings

The first century of the plague had seen the country turned upside down. In the twilight years of Edward III it seemed that nothing could damage the greatness of the Plantagenet royal estate. But the world of the village went from impoverished claustrophobia to traumatized infection. A hundred years later, everything had been upended, courtesy of King Death. — Simon Schama

How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives! — Willa Cather

You must never leave me Sweetness. I will never leave you. — Jen Wylie

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. — Michael Chabon

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life. — Randi Weingarten

Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on ... the world of beauty around us. — Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

When I focus on beauty, I can find it even in the midst of ugliness. — Debasish Mridha

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures. — Gary Wolf

Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants? — Robert Green Ingersoll

I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like. — Craig Finn

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty? — Preston Sturges