Liossis Quotes & Sayings

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch

I winced. I just said "creamed." I felt so deprived and miserably virginal. — Hayden Thorne

I stopped and asked him if he was all right, and he said he was tired of remembering everything he wanted to forget and forgetting everything he wanted to remember. — Kevin Brockmeier

[ ... ] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within oneself, to discard it in favour of the present, so that one's embrace may be turned outwards to the world in which one has made one's home. — Anita Brookner

Of all the thousands of gifts I received in my eight years in the White House, few were more welcome and needed than these twelve intangible gifts of discernment, peace, compassion, faith, fellowship, vision, forgiveness, grace, wisdom, love, joy and courage. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. — Rebecca Solnit

The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body. — Deepak Chopra

When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through. — Charles Spurgeon

Childhood was our common mythology. — Bia Lowe