Muumuus Portland Quotes & Sayings

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought. — Jacques Barzun

Ava, the first time I saw you, this lost beautiful creature that swept me into this unimaginable world, I knew I was in trouble. I should've left you then, but I couldn't, because of what I felt for you. I've tried to figure out how I could be captivated so quickly by someone I barely knew and then it hit me ... that book. It's opened my eyes, revealing you and what I truly feel inside. — Nicole Gulla

Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don't become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings. — Dalai Lama

My family is large and in charge! That's my favorite way to describe them. — Britt Robertson

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological. — Stephen R. Covey

The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Every possible pressure is being brought to bear upon Christians
to make them conform to the standards of the present world ... be a committed follower of Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all. — Mark Epstein

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time. — Mark Twain

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar. — Terry Tempest Williams

In 1975, another landmark paper showed that mothers presiding over an empty nest were not despairing, as conventional wisdom had always assumed, but happier than mothers who still had children at home; during the eighties, as women began their great rush into the workforce, sociologists generally concluded that while work was good for women's well-being, children tended to negate its positive effects. — Jennifer Senior