Lissas Loves Quotes & Sayings

Long after all the chocolates were eaten, and the cousins had gone, we kept the chocolate-box in the linen-drawer in the dining-room sideboard, waiting for some ceremonial use that never presented itself. It was still full of the empty chocolate cups of dark, fluted paper. In the wintertime I would sometimes go into the cold dining room and sniff at the cups, inhaling their smell of artifice and luxury; I would read again the descriptions on the map provided on the inside of the box-top: hazelnut, creamy nougat, Turkish delight, golden toffee, peppermint cream. — Alice Munro

Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone. — Leonard Jacobson

I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics ... No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop. — Michael Foreman

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven's workshop, heaven's womb. — Gerald L. Sittser

If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out. — Stewart Butterfield

John Kerry's victory over Howard Dean has completely changed the presidential race around. Now instead of the rich white guy from Yale who lives in the White house facing off against the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Vermont, he may have to face the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Massachusetts. It's a whole different game. — Jay Leno

We've got to play better basketball. — Tim Buckley

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

All our progress of luxury and knowledge ... we have not been lifted by as much as an inch above the level of the darkest ages ... The last hundred years have wrought no change in the passions, the cruelties, and the barbarous impulses of mankind. There is no change from the savagery of the Middle Ages. We enter a new century equipped with every wonderful device of science and art but the pirate, the savage, and the tyrant still survives. — Jim Harrison

Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act. — Lynsey Addario

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like not to understand. — Richard Saul Wurman