Planitis Quotes & Sayings

I feel a sudden wave of homesickness, but not the kind that makes you sad. The kind that reminds you of who you are and where you come from. — Emily Giffin

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms. — Joyce Carol Oates

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.' — Dionne Bromfield

Wingback chairs had been originally designed to protect their occupants either from drafts or the heat of a fire. — Barbara Delinsky

the key to going faster is to learn "to be comfortable being uncomfortable. — Adam Hodges

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed. — Thelma Houston

Freedom meant one thing to him - home.
But they wouldn't let him go home. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved. — Siddharth Katragadda

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether ... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain? — Aaron Allston

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship? — William McFee

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone. — Wallace Stegner

Power wears out those who don't have it. — Giulio Andreotti