Memorabilia Box Quotes & Sayings

Affirmation: I am in love with the free spirit that I am becoming. — Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue. — Guy Deutscher

In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings. — Nhat Hanh

The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners, — Jonathan Franzen

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart. — Jane Austen

There was a silence, and I looked at Laura - really looked at her - and had the sudden impression that I was having dinner with a simulacrum, a knockoff. I felt like the man who buys the box of genuine wartime memorabilia at auction and brings it home to discover, under the first layer, piles and piles of shredded newspaper. — Paul Murray

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them. — James Madison

She hoped the menfolk were having a nice, relaxing road trip in that souped-up man car they were riding in because as soon as they got to the Roberts' house, she was pawning off the woman formerly known as her sister onto the dude whose sperm had apparently turned her into a she-devil. — Julie James

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. — Jean M. Auel

A mistake is just a temporary pause in your plan. — Jenna Ushkowitz

He didn't argue; she was no warrior. But he understood now it took a different kind of courage to accept what you could not change and try to make the best of it. — Stephanie Snow

I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the water and letting it carry me where it will. Yes, there will be nights where I feel like my destiny is at my fingertips and there will be nights I wish the lights were off and I could just make these sounds in the dark. Still, I will always be there, wherever there might be, staring into blackness hoping the blackness stares back at me. — Andrew McMahon

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get. — John Engler

As Luther said, "God does not need our good works; our neighbor does. — Michael S. Horton

Can you squeeze me
into an empty page of your diary
and psychologically save me? — Morrissey