Mesnard Quartzite Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, coming home in the early morning like this, I'd imagine things had altered while I was absent: a knife on the bread board that I didn't remember leaving out, a book face down on the table, a cup brimming with tea and dishwater in the sink. The evidence I wanted didn't need to be too elaborate or detailed. I could have constructed an entire afterlife from a half-moon of lemon rind or a small blister of jam on the tablecloth. — John Burnside

She's trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted. — Ally Condie

It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity. — Pope Francis

Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly. — 37 Signals

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there--shared vision and values. — Stephen R. Covey

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. — Thomas E. Mann

It is curious how the passing of lifetimes will change a man. — Daniel O'Malley

If you care enough, you make a difference. — Loretta Swit

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy. — Richard M. Nixon

When you've tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed — Benny Bellamacina

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move. — Miranda Otto

For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time: we eat them ... The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment. — Peter Singer

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. — Sharon Gless

I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting. — Isabel Burton