Michniewicz Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood. — Pope Francis

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow. — Karl Shapiro

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed. — John Lancaster Spalding

The word most consistently used to describe Kim Philby was "charm", that intoxicating, beguiling and occasionally lethal English quality. — Ben Macintyre

The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most? — Brady Udall

I know I please where I must please the most. — Sophocles

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book. — Connie Willis

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right. — Mignon McLaughlin

Some of the gardeners, Nanao said, worked according to the precepts of Muso Soseki, others according to other Japanese Zen masters; others still to Fu Hsi, the legendary inventor of the Chinese system of geomancy called feng shui; others to Persian gardening gurus, including Omar Khayyam; or to Leopold or Jackson, or other early American ecologists, like the nearly forgotten biologist Oskar Schnelling; and so on. These — Kim Stanley Robinson

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me. — Chris Lilley

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. — Ayn Rand