Nanny Sylvia Quotes & Sayings

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. — Ed Koch

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be! — Langston Hughes

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind — J.P. Moreland

My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds. — Jodi Picoult

Viktor had been very sad about their grandfather's death, but Flora had intuited that it was less the person he grieved for than the fact of death itself. Death meant that people actually disappeared. That everyone was going to disappear — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied? — Semir Zeki

It was worth it," Faye says after school while she walks me to my car. "It's not fair that you take all the shit for this while the guys get to walk around like nothing happened. They're just as much to blame."
"I'm the one who started it," I say, kicking a beer cap across the parking lot with my shoe. "If I hadn't started it, nothing would have happened.
"Don't let them off the hook so easily," Faye snaps. "They were coming to you. It takes two to have sex. So don't defend them. — Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses
in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto. — H.L. Mencken

The tiny conversation they'd had would reveal no evidence of her frayed edges. — Scot Gardner

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time. — Tom Udall

Do not do what you want, and then you may do what you like. — Paramahansa Yogananda

What possesses them, these young girls with a talent for self-immolation? — Margaret Atwood

It was a vow we made those long years ago. Neither of us spoke of it afterwards, but it hung between us like a spider web, fragile and easy to break, but danged hard to get shed of once the threads took hold. — Cassie Dandridge Selleck

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. — Julius Erving