Shadowtails2727 Quotes & Sayings

Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me."
As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see. — Maggie Nelson

My name used to be in the papers daily
As having dined somewhere,
Or traveled somewhere,
Or rented a house in Paris,
Where I entertained the nobility.
I was forever eating or traveling,
Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden.
Now I am here to do honor
To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang.
No one cares now where I dined,
Or lived, or whom I entertained,
Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden! — Edgar Lee Masters

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

Do what you should, not what you may. — Seneca The Younger

Lord can restore a covenant with Israel and yet continue — Jack Miles

How is it every time we're talking about the real world, you manage to bring up fantasy, and every time we're talking about fantasy, you manage to bring up the real world?

Travis shrugged. "My fantasies are more interesting than the real world and machines and tools are more interesting than you guys' fantasies. — Jeff Zentner

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy. — David Henry Hwang

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. — Confucius

In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. — Patrick Bergin

'Earth' is a silly name for this planet. — Graham Hawkes