Podrida In English Quotes & Sayings

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene — Mark Twain

Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died in infancy. Swedenborg ensures the parents of these infants that 'All children whether born within or outside of the church, are adopted by the Lord and become Angels'. — Emanuel Swedenborg

I wanted desire that someone set on fire and floated out
onto a lake. To ruin entire monarchies with my wanting. — Kristy Bowen

I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time. — William Forsythe

Inside each of us resides the truth, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the read thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion ... We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look into ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us. Only then will justice be served. — Garth Stein

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions. — Phyllis Diller

The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace. — Magnus Flyte

[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions. — Kenneth E. Boulding

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world. — Judith Butler

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more. — Criss Jami

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty. — Matthea Harvey

You can stay young as long as you learn. — Emily Dickinson

I saw no heaven - but in her eyes. — Edgar Allan Poe