Lakj Lj L Quotes & Sayings

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage? — Kevin Barry

When they came to harvest my corpse
(open your mouth, close your eyes)
cut my body from the rope,
surprise, surprise:
I was still alive.
Tough luck, folks,
I know the law:
you can't execute me twice
for the same thing. How nice.
I fell to the clover, breathed it in,
and bared my teeth at them
in a filthy grin.
You can imagine how that went over.
Now I only need to look
out at them through my sky-blue eyes.
They see their own ill will
staring then in the forehead
and turn tail
Before, I was not a witch.
But now I am one. — Margaret Atwood

The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around. — David Graeber

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run. — John Wooden

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation. — Stephen Harper

In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive. — Gloria Steinem

God almost always opens two ways which lead thither, the ways of sorrow and of love. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. — Dianne Feinstein