La Farfalle Quotes & Sayings

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper. — Monica Crowley

Who's that knocking on my grave and will not let me sleep, a year has one — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Our basic nature is to act, and not be acted upon. As well as enabling us to choose our response to particular circumstances, this empowers us to create circumstances. Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen. — Stephen R. Covey

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss. — Matt Chandler

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle ... is another riddle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How shall I tell ye what it is, to feel the need of a place?" he said softly. "The need of snow beneath my shoon. The breath of the mountains, breathing their own breath in my nostrils as God gave breath to Adam. The scrape of rock under my hand, climbing, and the sight of the lichens on it, enduring in the sun and the wind."

His breath was gone and he breathed again, taking mine. His hands were linked behind mv head, holding me, face-to-face.
"If I am to live as a man, I must have a mountain," he said simply. — Diana Gabaldon

Love is the wild card of existence. — Rita Mae Brown

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I get tremendously neurotic making sure nothing is forced or fake. — Rick Hoffman

People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater. — Kevin Spacey

Education is a process of cultivating diamonds in a field called the mind. — Debasish Mridha

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life — Jhumpa Lahiri

The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff. — Abby Wambach

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine. — N.K. Jemisin