Moira Buffini Quotes & Sayings

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full. — Clarence Day

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. — Robin McKinley

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort. — John F. Kennedy

[A critic] can never forget that all he has to go by, finally, is his own response, the self that makes and is made up of such responses - and yet he must regard that self as no more than the instrument through which the work of art is seen, so that the work of art will seem everything to him and his own self nothing. — Randall Jarrell

When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth. — John Pilger

We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others. — Dalai Lama

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it — Wallace D. Wattles

Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was? — Brit Bennett

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't. — George Jones

I was okay with singing. I always sneak a song into everything I do. Dancing, a little awkward. Little embarrassed about that. I don't move well. But I was with a frog, so it doesn't matter. I'll do anything with a frog, that's my motto. He's great with tap-dancing or flap-dancing on my head. So no one's going to be looking at me when we're doing that dance. They're going to be saying, 'There's a frog dancing'. — Ricky Gervais

A stronger race will drive out the weaker ones, for the vital urge in its ultimate form will break down the absurd barriers of the so called humanity of individuals to make way for the humanity of nature which destroys the weak to give their place to the strong. — Adolf Hitler

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past. — Donna Rice

if you want to be able to talk about a place, the best thing to do is stay at home. — Pierre Bayard

Fairy Tales give you more than just smile.
They give you Hope.
Hope that at the end true love conquers all odds and slays every dragon. — Ameya Agrawal

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. — Helen Hayes