Jacqueminots Quotes & Sayings

I knew how hard loss was. It never went away, but stayed with you like a faint shadow that was thicker some days than others. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely "usual" people, and how can he present them to the reader so as to make them at least somewhat interesting? To bypass them altogether in a story is quite impossible, because ordinary people are constantly and for the most part the necessary links in the chain of everyday events; in bypassing them we would thus violate plausibility. To fill novels with nothing but types or even simply, for the sake of interest, with strange and nonexistent people, would be implausible
and perhaps uninteresting as well. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none. — Tony Snow

Does the hummingbird think he himself invented his crimson throat?
He is wiser than that, I think. — Mary Oliver

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent — Carl Jung

First, there is the separation cry, which is a young mammal's distressed vocalization when separated from a caretaker. This cry is actually an attempt to regain attachment upon separation, and thus we call it the attachment cry. Other defensive subsystems include hypervigilance and scanning the environment, flight, freeze with analgesia, fight, total submission with anesthesia, and recuperative states of rest, wound care, isolation from the group, and gradual return to daily activities — Onno Van Der Hart

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel! — Charles Spurgeon

Luke talks about the power that lies in the dark side. The Force isn't the only thing that has a dark side, Han. And the tricky thing about the dark side is that it's so easy to use - and it gets you what you think you want. — Barbara Hambly

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen. — Lara Flynn Boyle

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. — Tom Brokaw

orders at home. Over the following — Jeff Hobbs

So next time you hear a raving demagogue counseling hatred for other, slightly different groups of humans, for a moment at least see if you can understand his problem: He is heeding an ancient call that - however dangerous, obsolete, and maladaptive it may be today - once benefitted our species. — Carl Sagan

What God says I am is what I am: great soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita