Lairton Quotes & Sayings

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. — Edgar Allan Poe

I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses. — Petra Nemcova

War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain. — G. Frank Lawlis

Of the approximately nine hundred thousand Palestinians living in the territories designated by the UN as a Jewish state, only one hundred thousand remained on or near their lands and homes. Those who remained became the Palestinian minority in Israel. The rest were expelled, or fled under the threat of expulsion, and a few thousand died in massacres. — Noam Chomsky

I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence. Every sort of thing happened, at home and outside, every day, but I don't recall having ever thought that the life we had there was particularly bad. Life was like that, that's all, we grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us. — Elena Ferrante

Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you. — Penelope Smith

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. — Philip Sidney

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. — Jodi Picoult

So I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Yeah." His heart rate picked up. She really did make him feel more like a kid than a grown man.
Although the desire she made him feel was certainly a man's desire. "Do you want to have lunch with
me tomorrow?"
"Lunch?"
"Yeah. A picnic. I want to show you this place — Maisey Yates

How much could the person you love change, and still remain the same person to whom you'd made your promise? We don't expect our lovers to remain the same over the course of a long relationship. In fact, if you're married at sixty-five to the same person you married when you were twenty, your marriage has probably failed. But there are changes, over time, that spell doom for a marriage, although exactly what these are, and to what degree, varies from couple to couple. For some people, vast changes over time make no difference to the fundamental sense of devotion one soul has for another. But for others, relatively small changes can push things to the breaking point: gaining or losing weight, gaining or losing faith, gaining or losing wealth. How does any relationship survive in the end, when change is the only constant? — Jennifer Finney Boylan