Jerusha Duford Quotes & Sayings

Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards too!'
-'You want to withdraw!' cried El Conde.
-'No, to resist,' replied the Baron. — Italo Calvino

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living. — Malcolm Muggeridge

It's not how you start out, it's where you end up. — Dee Dee M. Scott

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason. - MARK TWAIN — Brian Tracy

When you struggle winning matches all year and you don't really get into a groove or rhythm, you just can't expect to just come in here and have it click. — Pete Sampras

She's so sensitive, she's almost able to read their minds. . .. She becomes them. . .. She has a precise and very special gift, a way of observing and understanding animals that's rare, a sixth sense. . .. It's been this way since she was little." In — Diane Ackerman

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange,
Although he fleeced the flags of every nation,
For into a prime minister but change
His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation. — Lord Byron

Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think. — Gillian Flynn

The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage. — Garrison Keillor

She was the one, I decided, who would guide me into the vortex of the cliche. — Don DeLillo

What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is. — Henry David Thoreau

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me. — Cyndi Lauper

But Istanbul is a city of easy forgettings. Things are written in water over there, except the works of my master, which are written in stone. — Elif Shafak