Marioneta De Trapo Quotes & Sayings

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me. — Dave Pelzer

Grief doesn't hit and run; it stays. and sometimes for a very long time. — Adriana Trigiani

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. — Tom Stoppard

You'd know all about the process - the tests, the interviews with the police, the counselors, the lawyers. It's horrible, that reliving of it, and I was angry to be viewed as a victim. — Nora Roberts

[W]hat made Christians especially dangerous to the Roman order was their refusal to pay what Romans regarded as ordinary respect to their Roman rulers; and this brought some of them into direct and total opposition to the temporal as well as the divine authorities - to the emperors and to their divine patrons, the gods. — Elaine Pagels

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it comes to innovation, a company's legacy beliefs are a much bigger liability than its legacy costs. - Gary Hamel — Jackie Fenn

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality ... to protect myself. — Alberto Giacometti

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. — Thomas Jefferson

The more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone's lifetime. — Shane Kuhn

Once you lose someone it is never exactly
the same person who comes back. — Sharon Olds

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film. — Gus Van Sant

It's okay to write something offensive now and then. It lets you know if anyone actually reads your posts. — Stanley Victor Paskavich