Moonsplashed Quotes & Sayings

We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to. — George Eliot

A hundred years or more, she's bent her crown
in storm, in sun, in moonsplashed midnight breeze.
surviving all the random vagaries
of this harsh world. A dense - twigged veil drifts down
from crown along her trunk - mourning slow wood
that rustles tattered, in a hint of wind
this January dusk, cloudy, purpling
the ground with sudden shadows.
How she broods -
you speculate - on dark surprise and loss,
alone these many years, despondent, bent,
her bolt-cracked mate transformed to splinters, moss.
Though not alone, you feel the sadness of a
twilight breeze. There's never enough love;
the widow nods to you. Her branches moan. — Lauren Lipton

I operate under this one mantra: only when provoked. — Marla K. Benjamin

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense ... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction? — Bjorn Lomborg

I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that. — Tracey Emin

How cold and foreign this city seemed, that even death could pass unnoticed. — Kristen Simmons

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY — John Henrik Clarke

I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best. — Carolina Kluft

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things. — William Ames

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying. — Tom Petty

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time. — Charlie Day

I know what you want to hear, doctor, but I'm sorry, you're not going to pry some sordid confession out of me. — Barbara Mujica

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us. — Catherine McAuley

No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution. — Harry Belafonte