Ruby Holler Book Quotes & Sayings

Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep. — Laurence Sterne

From her bed she could hear her mother and father arguing. After her father's death when she was eleven, she could hear her older brother, Bud, argue with their mother. From what she had learned about domestic battery in the last few years, she should have expected to end up with an abuser, even though her father never hit her or her mother, and the worst she ever got from Bud was a shove or slug in the arm. But man, could the men in her family yell. So loud, so mad, she wondered why the windows didn't crack. Demand, belittle, insult, accuse, sulk, punish with the meanest words. It was just a matter of degrees; abuse is abuse. The — Robyn Carr

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice. — Voltaire

But it must be observed that as the depreciation of money proceeds, the demand for money (i.e. for the kind of money in question) gradually begins to fall. When loss of wealth is suffered in proportion to the length of time money is kept on hand, endeavours are made to reduce cash holdings as much as possible. N ow if every individual, even if his circumstances are otherwise unchanged, no longer wishes to maintain his cash holding at the same level as before the beginning of the inflation, the demand for money in the whole community, which can only be the sum of the individuals' demands, decreases too. There is also the additional fact that as commerce gradually-begins to use foreign money and actual gold in place of notes, individuals begin to hold part of their reserves in foreign money and in gold and no longer in notes. — Ludwig Von Mises

It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. Jesus — G.K. Chesterton

What's impossible to communicate, what you can't experience unless you're part of it, is the sensation of being in a real-life marriage. Even little chats seem to be floating in some kind of really ast liquid, and that vast liquid is the ocean of shared feelings and memories and shorthands, of understanding and misunderstandings between the couple
their history ocean. More and more of their business tends to go underwater, and so even the important words feel only like individual waves popping up from that ocean. All that context, that history, and those impressions from real life that the couple logs and drowns in, it all washes over everything — Darin Strauss

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception. — Jaggi Vasudev

He could be alone with her, but it was difficult learning to be alone without her. — Keith Donohue

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force. — John Ruskin

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed. — Alanis Morissette

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions. — John Raleigh Mott

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it. — Lee Hsien Loong

War is a way of shattering to pieces ... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and ... too intelligent. — George Orwell