Schlaff Schlaff Quotes & Sayings

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself. — Bear Grylls

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it's to tell her that something bad has happened. — Melina Marchetta

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things. — Penelope Cruz

The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters. — Paul Craig Roberts

There'd been an epidemic, the man had told him. Thirty people had died incandescent with fever, including the mayor. After this, a change in management, but the tuba's acquaintance had declined to elaborate on what he meant by this. He did say that twenty families had left since then, including Charlie and the sixth guitar and their baby. He said no one knew where they'd gone, and he'd told the tuba it was best not to ask. — Emily St. John Mandel

History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find deep sources of identity. We live again in the twelfth or in the fifteenth century, finding echoes and resonances of our own time; we may recognise that some things, such as piety and passion, are never lost; we may also conclude that the great general drama of the human spirit is ever fresh and ever renewed. That is why some of the greatest writers have preferred to see English history as dramatic or epic poetry, which is just as capable of expressing the power and movement of history as any prose narrative; it is a form of singing around a fire. — Peter Ackroyd

I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference. — Lawton Chiles

I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn't so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way. — Marilyn Manson

Scott smirked. "You know it's always worse when you're around. And I still think I can keep up with you. Of course, you're going to drive off, go back home, drink a fifth and play guitar all night and not feel a thing. On the other hand, I'll be up thirteen times to take a piss before five AM, have a hella case of acid reflux and sore fingers from shredding guitar strings. — Carrie Clevenger

How short was the road from that decision to this moment? The question ached like a bruise. — Jane Harper

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. — Nikos Kazantzakis

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart. — David Steindl-Rast

- I saw the Center of the Universe, she said.
- I'm looking at it right now, he said. — Eva Scoutt

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness. — Orville Dewey

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. — Donald Miller