Jannetti Quotes & Sayings

When words, half love, all tenderness,
Were hourly heard, as hourly spoken,
When the long, sunny days of bliss
Only by moonlight nights were broken. — The Bronte Sisters

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives(Cassia 'Reached') — Ally Condie

Natures and features last until the grave — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten. — Gloria Steinem

There was a small woven basket waiting on his desk
the next day, still smelling like warmed-from-the-oven
sin. A note was attached written with the words
"Have a good day!" A drawing of a tiny dog chasing
a butterfly completed the absurdity.
He stood in front of his desk, just staring at it and
the basket for a full minute. Asps didn't smell like
baked items, but the latter were no less dangerous.
He tented the edge of the cloth cover with his
smallest finger. Three fruit tarts lay inside.
Poisoned most likely. — Anne Mallory

When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job. — Catherine Anderson

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker. — Alan Dershowitz

While this might seem a bit abstract, these numbers are not arbitrary. They are symbols, which represent pieces of paper, which represent pieces of gold. Gold doesn't represent anything; its value is inherent in its glitter. — Colin MacLaughlin

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it. — Margaret Atwood

Running away will never make you free. — Kenny Loggins

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on. — Lord Byron

Without music the heart beats a silent lonely rhythm. Without song the soul is but an empty shallow well. — Elizabeth Good

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."
"Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
"I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances. — Oscar Wilde

What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it? — Eric Chivian

In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to them ... Being steady with mindfulness as an anchor for all the changes we go through is the way we practice forbearance. And you can employ this same method anywhere anytime: just pay close attention to the details of what is going on internally and externally. Don't flinch, don't run away. Trust what happens. Take your stand there. (71) — Norman Fischer