Kierkegaards Either Or Quotes & Sayings

Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for. — Susan Mallery

Outside the basement door was a covered pen that housed a rooster and a seagull. The rooster had been on his way to Colonel Sanders' when he fell off a truck and broke a drumstick. Someone called Carol, as people often do, and she took the rooster into her care. He was hard of moving, but she had hopes for him. He was so new there he did not even have a name. The seagull, on the other hand, had been with her for years. He had one wing. She had picked him up on a beach three hundred miles away. His name was Garbage Belly. --John McPhee, Travels in Georgia (1973) — David Remnick

I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these. — Natalia Tena

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life. — Carnie Wilson

Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally. — Monica Crowley

He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating a world from scratch. — Barbara Klein Moss

God is reveaing Himself in this hour as the supreme elation of the soul. True love of God is evident in those whose only pleasure is derived fom drawing near to Him. — John Crowder

When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

goodness tries to get the upper hand in us whenever it seems to have the slightest chance - on Sunday mornings, perhaps, when we are set free from the grinding hurry of the week, and take the little three-year old on our knee at breakfast to share our egg and muffin; in moments of trouble, when death visits our roof or illness makes us dependent on the tending hand of a slighted wife; in quiet talks with an aged mother, of the days when we stood at her knee with our first picture-book, or wrote her loving letters from school. — George Eliot

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. — Lucy Powell

The notion that 'it all somehow must make sense', or 'there is a best decision here', preserves from despair: the difficulty is how to entertain this consoling notion in a way which is not false. — Iris Murdoch