Leydon Lettings Quotes & Sayings

This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy. — Rajneesh

I've thought that perhaps that's why women are so often sad, once the child's born," she said meditatively, as though thinking aloud. "Ye think of them while ye talk, and you have a knowledge of them as they are inside ye, the way you think they are. And then they're born, and they're different - not the way ye thought of them inside, at all. And ye love them, o' course, and get to know them they way they are ... but still, there's the thought of the child ye once talked to in your heart, and that child is gone. So I think it's the grievin' for the child unborn that ye feel, even as ye hold the born one in your arms. — Diana Gabaldon

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin. — Lawrence Durrell

We had a few calls saying election precincts had closed early. But it turned out that the callers were in the wrong places. Some people went to the old locations of a church, rather than the new one. We called the polling locations as well as the church pastor and they verified they were still open. — Jane Anderson

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. — Voltaire

Whatever did they feed you to make you grow so large? (Nora)
A great deal of breast milk. (Ewan)
You take great delight in shocking people, don't you? (Nora) — Kinley MacGregor

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv. — Finley Peter Dunne

Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or indirect connection - as if a word could become an object by mere addition of consequences. Others pick up words from the streets, from their bars, from their offices and display them proudly in their poems as if they were shouting, "See what I have collected from the American language. Look at my butterflies, my stamps, my old shoes!" What does one do with all this crap? — Jack Spicer

The weather in this land was quite unruly, and if you couldn't appreciate the many shades of gray, you had no business living in it.
Alden Garrat Warrior Heart — Dee Farrell

Gratitude is an excellent attitude which can lift you to a greater altitude if you put it on as a vesture. — S. E. Entsua-Mensah

I'm not really into rap. — Magnus Carlsen

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer — Voltaire

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict. — Giles Duley