Secondhand Serenade Love Quotes & Sayings

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Encourage me, and I will not forget you. — William Arthur Ward

The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the author photo or the 'sheer humanity' of the prose style. — Conrad Williams

Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest. — Robert Gottlieb

He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone, anyone, if it would provide a respite from the loneliness and rain and cold of Madrid, but this was a discovery that he preferred to conceal. — Roberto Bolano

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's we do not accept them easily enough. — C.S. Lewis

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong. — Ron Franscell

Being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much delight as if it had been forbidden. — Elizabeth Gaskell

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating. — Jon Miller

To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor. — Adam Richman

Everything I had learned or assimilated from my parents I now regarded as unreliable, and needing to be rethought from scratch. In fact, I probably went further-I felt that everything my parents believed was by definition wrong, and that if I ever felt myself in agreement with my parents I should immediately recant. Everything ... needed to be jettisoned. But in a way what they said wasn't the problem: what I was more worried about was the attitudes, prejudices, beliefs I might have picked up from them subconsciously or before I was old enough to even know what I was learning. Effectively, I had to question everything I believed, and never accept my own instincts. It required constant vigilance; it was intellectually exhausting. — Lynn Barber

My weakness did not pass; it grew worse the longer I was awake. I thought about calling for Twig or Thistle, to have them bring me something to eat or drink, but I wanted to be alone. I wanted to cry. I had spent tears of rage, frustration, and sorrow since becoming the Goblin King's bride, but I hadn't allowed myself the indulgence of a good sob. The undignified, broken-hearted, mournful wail of ugly tears. The weight of that unreleased cry pressed down upon my lungs and my heart. I — S. Jae-Jones

Sail, sail thy best, ship of democracy,
Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the present only,
The past is also stored in thee,
Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the western continent alone,
Earth's resume entire floats upon thy keel, O ship, is steadied by thy spars,
With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent nations sink or swim with thee,
With all their ancient struggles , martyrs, heroes, epics, wars, thou bear'st the other continents,
Theirs, theirs as much as thine, the destination-port triumphant.. — Walt Whitman

The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border. — Sitting Bull