Jade Peony Quotes & Sayings

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention. — Gloria Estefan

A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes. Mrs. — Kate Chopin

I will be the cause of death for everyone I love. — K. Weikel

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under. — Nick Flynn

Sure, she was going to turn eighteen in less than a year. She'd been in the system long enough to know that eighteenth birthdays weren't marked by celebrations. When the checks stopped coming, she'd be on her own. "Aging out" of foster care meant becoming homeless. She'd heard stories of kids ending up in jail and hospital emergency rooms, selling drugs, living on welfare and food stamps. How desperate did a person have to become before they broke the law to survive? For now, things were good, and she didn't want to mess that up. — Ellen Marie Wiseman

You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the way out. — Diana Abu-Jaber

No Matter What
No matter what the world claims,
its wisdom always growing, so it's said,
some things don't alter with time:
the first kiss is a good example,
and the flighty sweetness of rhyme.
No matter what the world preaches
spring unfolds in its appointed time,
the violets open and the roses,
snow in its hour builds its shining curves,
there's the laughter of children at play,
and the wholesome sweetness of rhyme.
No matter what the world does,
some things don't alter with time.
The first kiss, the first death.
The sorrowful sweetness of rhyme. — Mary Oliver

Having spent almost two decades setting up and running Fortis, our mission of saving and enriching lives is an integral part of my being. Over time, this has inspired me to do more direct service and give back to society a little of what I have received in abundance. — Shivinder Mohan Singh

We must scrunch or be scrunched. — Charles Dickens

I've watched you shoulder your responsibilities, as I've felt you grow stronger with every fight, as I've seen how all these things hurt you and yet somehow cannot defeat you, I've only fallen deeper. — Sarah Fine

The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material. — Karl Marx

Life is really hard for some people. — Beeban Kidron

We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little - handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, living herded together in pensions or hotels, quite unconscious of anything that is outside Baedeker, their one anxiety to get 'done' and 'through' and go somewhere else. The result is they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl. — E. M. Forster