Portland Mayor Quotes & Sayings

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

As a business, the funeral industry has developed by selling a certain type of "dignity." Dignity is having a well-orchestrated final moment for the family, complete with a well-orchestrated corpse. Funeral directors become like directors for the stage, curating the evening's performance. The corpse is the star of the show and pains are taken to make sure the fourth wall is never broken, that the corpse does not interact with the audience and spoil the illusion. — Caitlin Doughty

The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him. — Melissa De La Cruz

That's the day i decided to live every minute of every day like it might be my last. — M. Leighton

The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me ... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it. — Bruce Springsteen

Be the person others can count on to get things done — Larry Winget

GenXers naturally bristle at hierarchies, but thrive on partnerships. — Mal Fletcher

Death is the great wrecking ball that destroys everything. Everything that we have done, everything that we are doing now, and all our plans for the future are completely and irrevocably destroyed when we die. Only teenagers live in that state of temporary insanity when they believe themselves immune from death. — Dinesh D'Souza

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now. — Lauren Oliver

A person is an objective entity, which as a definite subject has the closest contacts with the whole (external) world and is most intimately involved with it precisely because of its inwardness, its interior life. — Pope John Paul II

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Death is the inventor of God. — Jose Saramago

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times. — John Updike

Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once, to be seriously and responsibly active instead of occupying myself forever with nothing but esthetics and intellectual and artistic pursuits. It always ended, however, in resignation, in surrender to destiny. — Hermann Hesse

In deep suffering, I got to know divinity within my soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita