Pincushions Holland Quotes & Sayings

Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number ... I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

There's a part of every woman that wants to be some wild seductress or superhero. — Alana De La Garza

He who calls what has vanished back into being, enjoys a bliss like that of creating — Barthold Niebuhr

It quickly became apparent that to Mr. K, there was no such thing as an untalented kid - just a kid who didn't work hard enough. You are going to fix this problem, he said when he diag- nosed whatever was wrong, and there was never any question. Of course you would. It was just a matter of trying and trying and trying some more. He yelled not because we'd never learn, but because he was absolutely certain that we would. — Joanne Lipman And Melanie Kupchynsky

They are just a strange whim, kink of nature, deviation that doesn't seem to exist but is encountered every day. — Igor Eliseev

Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning. — Jared Gilman

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. — Robert Breault

If you really want to know, I'd rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing's done now, of course, and I can't alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis ... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so. — Orlando Figes

Angel, a crowd of millions couldn't hide you from me. I found you once. I'll always find you. — Sylvia Day

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing. — Persius

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine. — Samuel Larsen

We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact. — Martha Gellhorn

A death in reverse is the rewinding of life. I do not die of old age,
in a bed surrounded by strangers my loved ones paid to take care of me.
I die in reverse.
I die falling back
into a younger age.
From my forty-five years to twenty-five.
To sixteen. When we were in love.
To fourteen: when we first met.
To five.
To one.
To the hospital my mother died at
from the complications of my existence.
A life for a life. — F.K. Preston