Liverspotted Quotes & Sayings

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop

Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth. — Fiona Paul

Despair is a ugly thing when it refuses hope. — Alan McCluskey

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room. — Charles Dickens

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control. — Samuel Smiles

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Our father came to sleep in our house that night. He carried a small suitcase with a black mourning suit and a pair of polished shoes. Corrigan stopped him as he made his way up the stairs. 'Where d'you think you're going?'Our father gripped the bannister. His hands were liverspotted and I could see him trembling in his pause. 'That's not your room,' sad Corrigan. Our father tottered on the stairs. He took another step up. 'Don't,' said my brother. His voice was clear, full, confidant. Our father stood stunned. He climbed one more step and then turned, descended, looked around, lost.
'My own sons,' he said.
We made a bed for him on a sofa in the living room, but even then Corrigan refused to stay under the same roof; he went walking in the direction of the city center and I wondered what alley he might be found in later that night, what fist he might walk into, whose bottle he might climb down inside. — Colum McCann

It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go. — William Rotsler

They thought he was only what they could see. A nice boy but a bit of a goof, a bit of a show-off. Not the brightest star in the universe; not a numbers person, but you couldn't have everything you wanted and at least he wasn't a total washout. — Margaret Atwood

What Zen communicates is an awareness that is potentially already there but is not conscious of itself. Zen is then not Kerygma but realization, not revelation but consciousness, not news from the Father who sends His Son into this world, but awareness of the ontological ground of our own being here and now, right in the midst of the world. — Thomas Merton

Talk less about the years to come,
Live, love labor more today. — Christian Nestell Bovee

But don't worry ... my retaliation will be your wonderful undoing. — Gail McHugh

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation. — Sri Chinmoy

The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to. — Pope Francis

I was always attracted to science fiction movies. — Tina Turner

He tip-toed past the double bed that had been placed in a corner - wrought-iron headboard, embroidered pillows, amulets against the evil-eye and a satiny, cobalt-blue bedspread. Blue was Iskender's favourite colour. It was the colour for boys, which meant the sky was a boy. So were the rivers and lakes. And the oceans, though he had yet to see one. — Elif Shafak