Page 274 Quotes & Sayings

Something maternal awakened, perhaps, by the physical contact with such lovely young babies? And tonight was a good night, thus I feel correspondingly tender. There will be other bad nights, but remembering the versatile quicksilver shifting of children's moods, I smile with equanimity and do not cherish grudges, as most of us adults do, letting them fester like a cancer. But I let my emotions run on the same forgiving and transient track. — Sylvia Plath

Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life. — Michael Strahan

I can jump ship and swim
that the ocean will hold me,
that there's got to be more
than this boat I'm in. — Ani DiFranco

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. — Charles Darwin

Tamaki = "If not spoiled constantly, he'll die" type. — Bisco Hatori

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future. — Frank Gehry

Unfortunately, there's no test of compatibility to see how couples will survive together, despite what they say on those online dating sites. There's always a risk you take when you agree to spend the rest of your life with someone. — Jaci Burton

We can be still,
So still we start to know
The depth of everything,
So still we hear the stars
Begin to sing.... — William Norwich

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation. — Edith Wharton

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all ... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination.
(Nathan to Nat) — Catherine Ryan Hyde

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. — Colleen McCullough

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others. — Francis Bacon

If everything is done for me ... how will I ever learn? — John Flanagan