Laadan Vosough Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake. — Susane Colasanti

We figure he must have let him out. The perpetrator, I mean. He's blind and we figure he just wandered off and maybe got run over."
"The perpetrator."
"No, the dog. — Michael Chabon

It is the final sign of imbecility in a people that it calls cats dogs and describes the sun as the moon - and is very particular about the preciseness of these pseudonyms. To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. The disease called aphasia, in which people begin by saying tea when they mean coffee, commonly ends in their silence. Silence of this stiff sort is the chief mark of the powerful parts of modern society. They all seem straining to keep things in rather than to let things out. — G.K. Chesterton

I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals. — Johnny Carson

If I live in fear of what might be, how can I truly live my life to the full in the present? And if I do not give myself to the day, to hope, to life, what do I miss? — Lisa Tawn Bergren

To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians. — David Galula

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. — Saint Augustine

A limited number of types,good and bad serve for all ages. — Romain Rolland

I'm trying not to wet myself with excitement," I murmur back. "It's harder after having the triplets. — Kristan Higgins

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. — Pete Seeger

If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic fits may force me to find less silly my impossibly silly position: that of God's slave; no, not his slave even, but just a match which is aimlessly struck and then blown out by some inquisitive child, the terror of his toys. — Vladimir Nabokov

I had never seen eyes like his. Dark green. Smoldering. Ready to undress a woman with a single glance. — J.C. Reed

It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I
unhinge. — Antonin Artaud

Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage. — Norm MacDonald