Lindemuth Excavating Quotes & Sayings

I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave. — Ingrid Betancourt

There's no such thing as "The One", she once said. They were at dinner in Taipei, with a supplier and his wife. The couple had been married forty years. The idea that there's just one person in the world you're meant to be with, it's illogical, she said. She'd had a few drinks and was enjoying her own loud thoughts. The math just doesn't work! Who you end up with, it's really just an accident of proximity. — Dave Eggers

I used to think that I needed to be part of a story, a big story, one with trials and villains and temptations and rewards. That's how I would conquer it, conquer death."
She sighed again, and nestled in closer to me. "All that matters, in the end, is the little things. The way Mim says my name to wake me up in the morning. The way Bee's hand feels in mine. The way the sun cast my shadow across the yard yesterday. The way your cheeks flush when we kiss. The smell of hay and the taste of strawberries and the feel of fresh black dirt between my toes. This is what matters, Midnight. — April Genevieve Tucholke

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. — Alexander Pope

If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos. — Robin Jones Gunn

Abel lifted her up - another gesture from former times, from when she'd been smaller - and carried her to the bathroom to find the Band-aid. Suddenly, Anna thought, she's growing up. One day, she'll be too big to be carried around like that. One day, he won't be able to hold onto her, she'll move on, and he'll be left all alone. Maybe the responsibility for Micha is more of an anchor than a burden. A lifeboat. A wooden plank to hold onto so you don't drown. — Antonia Michaelis

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love. — Anna Held

To Annawadians, a difficult-to-raze house increased the odds that a family's tenure on airport land would be acknowledged by the relocation authorities. And so they put their money into what would be destroyed. — Katherine Boo

Man. I know they say it's good to take the high road. But it's also good to punch assholes in the face, too. — Ava Lore

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions. — Rosecrans Baldwin

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one. — Dick Cavett

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. — Mitch Albom

It is not true that love makes all things easy, it makes us chose things that are difficult. — George Eliot

Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome. — Kevin Ashton