Jincy Kelly Quotes & Sayings

Presently Arnaud folded the paper napkin, in the same careful way he always folded a table napkin, and said I ought to follow Chantal's suggestion and get a job in teaching a nursery school. (So Maman had mentioned that to Mme. Pons, too) I should teach until I had enough working time behind me to claim a pension. It would be good for me in my old age to have an income of my own. Anything could happen. He could be killed in a train crash or called up for a war. My father could easily be ruined in a lawsuit and die covered with debts. There were advantages to teaching, such as long holidays and reduced train fares.
"How long would it take?" I said. "Before I could stop teaching and get my pension."
"Thirty-five years," said Arnaud. "I'll ask my mother. She had no training, either, but she taught private classes. All you need is a decent background and some recommendations. — Mavis Gallant

Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army. — Ilya Ehrenburg

Even when things don't go very well, even when life is hard, it still tends to be a pretty wonderful thing to be alive. — Daniel M. Haybron

A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable. — L. Ron Hubbard

no matter what illnesses and injuries you are carrying, while you are still breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you. — Vidyamala Burch

What is the Power that transcends one from Achievement to Fulfillment? The Power of Inspiration!-RVM — R.v.m.

If you can see it, chances are it doesn't exist. — Peter Watts

I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children. — Wendy E. Long

The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. — Thomas J. Watson

People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them! — Sean Connery

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb. — Ambrose Bierce