Large Picture Frames With Quotes & Sayings

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H.G.Wells

You're an asshole," she grumbles, lying down beside me, close enough to touch but we're not touching. She feels miles away right now, coldness settling in that space between us.
"Yeah, well, at least you know..."
"Yeah, and it's a pity, really, because I found myself starting to give a fuck about you."
She says nothing else.
I don't say anything, either.
We lay there in silence.
For once, I don't prefer it.
I want her to say something else, anything else, just to erase those words now assaulting my mind.
I found myself starting to give a fuck about you.
I don't like it, not at all, because as she says those words, I come to realize, in the moment, that feeling might be mutual. — J.M. Darhower

Civilization has its roots in the soil. — Charles Kellogg

Grief can be an incredible source of energy. For good. — Peter Gould

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I. — Randy Newman

I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world he made is extraordinary, and that his comfort is like nothing else on earth. — Shauna Niequist

It wasn't closure, really. But I'd said the right things. I'd hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn't get closure. Maybe some things weren't really worth it, or didn't really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious. — Vee Hoffman

It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men and he did not like it much. He was glad he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies and threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would no rather have stayed there in peace - — J.R.R. Tolkien

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out. — Robert Stack

You know, 20 years ... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing. — Milos Forman

People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home. — Annie Dillard

God is at the helm even when you think your ship is sinking. Just keep trusting that the captain knows more about where you're heading than you do, and eventually you'll get where you need to be. — Kevin Alan Milne

We are what we frequently do. — Aristotle.