Myfacetory Quotes & Sayings

Spite
If we can't quite live beyond our bodies,
we should, as a matter of spite, live beyond our income. — Beryl Dov

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman

I am the punishment of God ... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. — Genghis Khan

It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion. — Edward Said

...a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one's bodily life. — Wendell Berry

Not until we're totally crushed do we show what we are made of. — Bohumil Hrabal

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins. — Rudyard Kipling

Don't take the high ground and assume you already know what you'll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you'll find there isn't anything you won't do. — Richelle Mead

I'm really not good at anything else, so if I don't make it as a musician, I'll probably just end up living in the woods with a bunch of dogs. — Elle King

I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right. — T. S. Eliot

Venus, when her son was lost,
Cried him up and down the coast,
In hamlets, palaces, and parks,
And told the truant by his marks,-
Golden curls, and quiver, and bow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other. — Philippa Gregory

If I believed in God, I'd see evidence of his existence in that. In your darkest hour you were held afloat by the human love that was given to you when you most needed it. That would have been true regardless of the outcome of Emma's surgery. It would have been the grace that carried you through even if things had not gone as well as they did, much as we hate to ponder that. — Cheryl Strayed

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car. — Peter Tork