Reverdy Johnson Quotes & Sayings

Ah me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken Than those whereof such things the bard relates, Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates? — George Gordon Byron

Fate has a way of finding us even when we hide. — Sarah Noffke

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. — Maurice Sendak

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what's desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread. — Fernando Pessoa

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous. — Julian Fellowes

What did I know about whatever it was that others obviously saw in me? how would I know if I went around with my stomach pressed into the dust of the ground. Truth has no witness? being isn't knowing? If a person doesn't look and doesn't see, does the truth exist anyway? THe truth that doesn't transmit itself even to those who can see. Is that the secret of being a person? — Clarice Lispector

The new Galliano will be even bigger and better ... I love working, it's my therapy. I can draw until four in the morning every night and not feel tired ... I've come face to face with my demons, medicine and alcohol. I have rebuilt myself again. — John Galliano

Sam Allberry says it best: "Desires for things God has forbidden are a reflection of how sin has distorted me, not how God has made me."22 — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... He had an overpowering personality. — Gian-Carlo Rota