Refolding Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom will give you the world; love will give you the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When Mrs. Keane whispered, between contractions, that the baby was coming at least six weeks too soon, he shook his head and clucked his tongue, lifting the wet dish towel from her forehead and refolding it and then touching it gently to her cheeks. The dampness, and the perspiration, had darkened her hair and the pain had brought some color to her face. There was all about her a not unpleasant odor of oatmeal or wheat. He knelt beside the couch. When he leaned away, his T-shirt was wet with the amniotic fluid that had soaked her dress and the cushion beneath her. Her knees were already raised, her pale legs bare, and he asked, gently, if she would like him to check what was going on. She nodded and when the contraction had passed, added, "Modesty is always the first thing to go. — Alice McDermott

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life. — David Brenner

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match. — Arlen Specter

Knowing how to make a life mean something, to wring out its worth when it was right there in one's hands instead of just wishing about it afterward, or imagining how it could have been, or should have been, different. — Deborah Reed

The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured ... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another ... and human beings could learn to be human. — Benjamin Franklin

If the UN has not failed in maintaining world peace or bilateral relations between nations, it has definitely not succeeded either. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes. — Matthew Quick

Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground. — Robert Kroese

I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that says the wrong way. But it doesn't work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats. There were some nice parts, sure, all lemondrop and mellonball, laughing in silk pajamas and the grain of sugar on the toast, love love or whatever, take a number. I'm sorry it's such a lousy story. — Richard Siken

While you are busy growing up, don't forget your parents are growing old. — Asli E. Perker