Milbauer Stara Quotes & Sayings

A secular person treats as the Highest Standard something that isn't the Highest Standard. — J. Budziszewski

How does these things happen? How do we go mad in small ways and calmly work the madness into our everyday little exercises...?
Little by little... — Jonathan Carroll

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it ... — Leo Tolstoy

It was one of those sneaky days in late winter where spring came along to get a lay of the land. — Dennis Lehane

The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir — Alfred North Whitehead

Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth. — Margaret Catley-Carlson

Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars ... "
"You'd get arrested all over again."
"Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless ... — Rachel Caine

How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? — Kazuo Ishiguro

Never do bad toward other people, unless you want bad possibly done to you — Angel Silva

If I want Callie to grow up to be a smart, strong woman, someone who values family and friends, and respects herself, I have to show her. If I want her to know the satisfaction of making something of herself with effort and work, I have to show her. — Nora Roberts

Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress.
Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started. — Ian Rankin

He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people. — Nadia Hashimi

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years. — Charles Yu

It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting. — Alice Walker