Painnomorejewelry Quotes & Sayings

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"I got a revolver to protect us." said Miss Constance,
"and I soon had use for it."
--New York Times, June 3 1915 — Amy Stewart

My weekends are extremely precious. — Mariska Hargitay

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head. — Rudolf Steiner

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. — George Bernard Shaw

...having already understood everything that you will understand henceforward and until the end of your days." -Q — Luther Blissett

So I can't explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us. — Colleen Oakley

Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end. — Joan D. Chittister

How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden. — Rick Bass

[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted the administration purposefully lied to us. This is the real story, and it reveals, once again, the character and mentality of this entire administration, for Gruber was speaking not merely for himself but about the entire administration, beginning with Obama. — David Limbaugh

To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point. — Francois Hollande

When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting. — Zane Grey

The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. — Rabindranath Tagore

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me. — Amy Robach

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. — Jack Prelutsky

Rarely has a man been more comfortable with his own greatness. He spent much of his leisure time penning long and flattering portraits of himself, declaring that there had never 'been a greater botanist or zoologist', and that his system of classification was 'the greatest achievement in the realm of science'. Modestly, he suggested that his gravestone should bear the inscription Princeps Botanicorum, 'Prince of Botanists'. It was never wise to question his generous self-assessments. Those who did so were apt to find they had weeds named after them. — Bill Bryson