Sequestration 2013 Quotes & Sayings

An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. — Ada Leverson

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it. — Ann Brashares

I had a lot of reading problems growing up. — Dav Pilkey

Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous. — Hugh Of Saint-Victor

Power knows power. — Gloria Naylor

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language. — Lucy Liu

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? — C.S. Lewis

I don't like Miami that much. I don't like the weather. My base is Miami, but I travel a lot. — Juan Pablo Galavis

For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them. — Edmund Morris

If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945 — Mervyn Peake

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning. — F Scott Fitzgerald