Lordial Quotes & Sayings

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain — Margaret Mitchell

Watching Mom try to act girlie would be entertainment in itself. Our last attempt at a girls' day started with a pedicure and ended with a monster-truck rally. That was five years ago. And so was her last pedicure. — Anna Banks

A Street filled with people is a vein filled with blood! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time. — Sue Monk Kidd

No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security. — Suze Orman

ADIEU
The glimmer farther away than the head
The heart-skip
On the slope where the air rolls its voice
The spokes of the wheel
the sun in the rut
At the crossroads
near the embankment
a prayer
Some words that are not heard
Nearer the sky
And on its steps
the last square of light
("Adieu") — Pierre Reverdy

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. — Georges Canguilhem

A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate millions ... Of all targets New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm. — E.B. White

Silence about a thing just magnifies it. — Julie Ann Walker

I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust. — Steve Goodier

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be ... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course. — Charlton Heston

We are first among the nations in per capita giving: it would take three Frenchmen, seven Germans, or fourteen Italians to equal the charitable donations of one American. — Parker J. Palmer

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures. — Arthur Erickson