Loveforpoetry Quotes & Sayings

It took a long moment, but Gerard finally raised his head and looked Jon in the eye. It meant that I have not been honest with you, Jon Calder, and if you are to understand the danger you are in now, I must tell you everything, no matter if you believe me or not. — Hank Edwards

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children. — Kevin Eubanks

He sauntered over to the bed, his head cocked to the side. Do I even want to know why my brother was in your bedroom? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

...few truly understood how disheartening it was to be cut off from worlds so strange and distant they remained to us fantasies rather than distant realities, too surreal and foreign to be touched. Their minds were fixated on what they knew to be real, unable to create the atmospheres of the nebulous realms that lay just beyond our reach, just beyond the dimming horizon, our celestial limits. — Moonshine Noire

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone. — Gabrielle Zevin

The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong. — Robert Henri

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States. — George Mikes

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny. — Calvin Coolidge

The Armful
For every parcel I stoop down to seize
I lose some other off my arms and knees,
And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns,
Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once
Yet nothing I should care to leave behind.
With all I have to hold with hand and mind
And heart, if need be, I will do my best.
To keep their building balanced at my breast.
I crouch down to prevent them as they fall;
Then sit down in the middle of them all.
I had to drop the armful in the road
And try to stack them in a better load. — Robert Frost

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. — Raymond Carver

I'm sorry,' she told him finally, because there was nothing else to say. His dazed expression slowly turned to a frown, but not of anger; it was a look nearer to disappointment.
'No, ye're not.' Penor spoke without anger or venom, in a voice of pure reason. 'Ye're glad it weren't Kerin. Better any of us, just so long as it's not Kerin. — Helen Bell

Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America. — Walt Disney

The Nixonization of Obama has started. The Hooverization comes next. — Robert Prechter