Matisses Le Quotes & Sayings

I asked my wife if she would put out the garbage. she said why should I you never put out for me. — Rodney Dangerfield

It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone. — Kristin Cashore

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. — David Byrne

The foam cushions
on the old couch downstairs
disintegrate
daily
in a hush,
like each of us,
small flecks of
hardening puffs
raining mute to the floor
when I flop down to study.
And the more the couch gets used,
the less foam it keeps
someday
just an uncomfortable frame,
springs and other inner workings
exposed.
Silent. — Thalia Chaltas

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. — William Congreve

Because racism was alive and real as shit. It was everywhere and all mixed up in everything, and the only people who said it wasn't, and the only people who said, "Don't talk about it" were white. Well, stop lying. That's what I wanted to tell those people. Stop lying. Stop denying. That's why I was marching. Nothing was going to change unless we did something about it. We! White people! — Jason Reynolds

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. — Mitch Daniels

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. — Thomas Carlyle

On the whole, Cold Comfort was not without its promise of mystery and excitement. — Stella Gibbons

What day is the day that we know that we hope for or fear for?
Every day is the day we should hear from or hope from.
One moment
Weighs like another. Only in retrospection, selection,
We say, that was the day. The critical moment
That is always now, and here. Even now, in sordid particulars
The eternal design may appear. — T. S. Eliot

I have no enemies and no hatred — Liu Xiaobo

Morning Prayer. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.{21} — Various