Psalm 121 Commentary Quotes & Sayings

There, Clover found the "gardens and great trees and old cottages ... so beautiful" that seeing them exhausted her. It was as if, she joked with her husband, "this English world is a huge stage-play got up only to amuse Americans. It is obviously unreal, eccentric, and taken out of novels. — Natalie Dykstra

The fact that no one was dead persuaded him that he was on the right track — John Verdon

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do. — J. Michael Straczynski

Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the traditional laborer from rising in status or, to put it bluntly, from "winning," even though what he wins has been rightfully his from the moment he was born into the human race. I — John Howard Griffin

There's a bar like it in every town. It's dimly-lit and the drinkers, although they talk, don't address their words to one another and they don't listen, either. They just talk the hurt inside. It's a bar for the derelict and the unlucky and all of those people who have been temporarily flagged off the racetrack of life and into the pits.
It always does a brisk trade.
On this dawn the mourners sat ranged along the counter, each in his cloud of gloom, each certain that he was the most unfortunate individual in the whole world. — Terry Pratchett

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs' ... One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right. — Scott Turow

But that was Rishi... he was like a pop song you thought you couldn't stand, but found yourself humming in the shower anyway. — Sandhya Menon

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation. — Jamais Cascio

This secret-keeping business was not for me. — Liz Czukas

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse. — Mason Cooley