Quiwa Scooter Quotes & Sayings

Clarities of the Nonexistent"

To have loved the way it happens in the empty hours of late afternoon; to lean back and conceive of a journey leaving behind no trace of itself; to look out from the house and see a figure leaning forward as if into the wind although there is no wind; to see the hats of those in town, discarded in moments of passion, scattered over the ground although one cannot see the ground. All this in vague, yellowing light that lowers itself in the hour before dark; none of it of value except for the pleasure it gives, enlarging an instant and finally making it seem as if it were true. And years later to come upon the same scene- the figure leaning into the same wind, the same hats scattered over the same ground that one cannot see. — Mark Strand

Think that; I know I should be grateful for the way we have been welcomed. Sick, wounded, starving, and empty-handed. Still, I can never get around the fact that District 13 was — Suzanne Collins

Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. 'This is a night as long as years', he said. 'How long will the day tarry?'
'Dawn is not far off', said Gamling, who had now climbed up beside him. 'But dawn will not help us, I fear'
'Yet dawn is ever the hope of men', said Aragorn. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge. — Jacques Maritain

If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it. — James Anderson

Marriage I think
For women
Is the best of opiates.
It kills the thoughts
That think about the thoughts,
It is the best of opiates.
So said Maria.
But too long in solitude she'd dwelt,
And too long her thoughts had felt
Their strength. So when the man drew near,
Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear.
Poor Maria!
Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain,
For now she's alone again and all in pain;
She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay
To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day. — Stevie Smith

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well. — Jane Fonda

The international game has changed for bidding cities. — Peter Ueberroth

It's art that's taught me to think and to write. — Andy Goldsworthy

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away ... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I think we've all lost some kind of feeling. — Bret Easton Ellis

Nd I shall think her very mean indeed if she does not give me some of her gloves, for she has many of them, I've seen them myself ... and as you can see, I took the hint ... but not much love went into THAT package did it, my dear? — Louisa May Alcott