Lauriett Quotes & Sayings

For my part, I never talk to the child about time. We talk about other things
though not about anything much
and never about tomorrow. For me that is impossible. Tomorrow we could all be wiped out. You think back upon all the promises you did not manage to keep. Talk about time and you will always end up making promises. Then it is better to say nothing at all, no matter what. — Peter Hoeg

Although this is poetic fiction, it contains hidden moral truths worthy of being heeded and understood and imitated, ... — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out. — Thisuri Wanniarachchi

The old man had often praised his strength. He had always been generous in his praise. It was all he had to give. — Anonymous

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. — Edwin Way Teale

Ain't no such thing as mistakes," he said. "There's only shit that happens and shit that don't. — Madeline Sheehan

The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them had to fill them solely with his own fantasies, with fantastic objects, in order not to go out of his mind. — Thomas Bernhard

Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes. — Rich Hall

Obviously, she thought, angling her head up to the second story, where filthy windows clouded with dust and decay seemed to transform into yawning faces with soulless eyes. — Jessica Lemmon

You complain of Catholicism for setting up an ideal of virginity; it did nothing of the kind. The whole human race set up an ideal of virginity; the Greeks in Athene, the Romans in the Vestal fire, set up an ideal of virginity. What then is your real quarrel with Catholicism? Your quarrel can only be, your quarrel really only is, that Catholicism has _achieved_ an ideal of virginity; that it is no longer a mere piece of floating poetry. — G.K. Chesterton

The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself. — Jonathan Franzen

I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start? — Rush Limbaugh

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything. — Susan Rice