Modern Memorial Day Quotes & Sayings

I have more confidence than I ever have before. — Carlos Beltran

Reading shows us how to be better human beings, not just successful worker bees. — Donalyn Miller

life, can become the truth of your life. He imagined them in Paris trying to talk to each other. She'd give small lectures on the country's innovative health care system; he'd give similar disquisitions on French jurisprudence. That would get them through one day, maybe two. Then they'd start making small talk about whatever was in front of them at that moment: the charming Parisian streets, the weather, the waiters, the daylight that clung on until well past ten. Museums would be a good choice because of the enforced silence. But then they'd be at a restaurant looking at menus and she'd say what looked good and he'd say what looked good and they'd stare at the plates of other diners and point out those that also looked good and express how they were perhaps changing their mind about what they intended to — Nathan Hill

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses. — Michael Josephson

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. — Benito Mussolini

I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen. — Nancy Gibbs

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? — Jerry Spinelli

/Are you sane, Mother?/
Laughter in his mind, painful in its familiarity. /Is any immortal every truly sane?/ — Nalini Singh

I've gone down this road, this path I laid out for myself a long time ago. And it doesn't involve marriage, or kids. And I'm sorry if you thought this was permanent or - — Victoria James

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying. — Abel Hermant

There is always a charge, of one kind or another. * — Jeff VanderMeer

My real talent was for losing clients. — Jay Chiat