Shahak Shapiras Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and then to meet tranquil Mrs. Fairfax, and spend the long winter evening with her, and her only, was to quell wholly the faint excitement wakened by my walk, - to slip again over my faculties the viewless fetters of an uniform and too still existence; of an existence whose very privileges of security and ease I was becoming incapable of appreciating. What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling life, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined! Yes, just as much good as it would do a man tired of sitting still in a "too easy chair" to take a long walk: and just as natural was the wish to stir, under my circumstances, as it would be under his. — Charlotte Bronte

If you are reading this, you are still alive, and, therefore, the story is not over. Something else could happen. — Alicia Bay Laurel

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey. — Chelsea Clinton

Moonlight wreaks havoc on an otherwise sane thinking mind. It makes you think that the impossible is possible, and your dreams, reality. — Jessiqua Wittman

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience. — Richard Neutra

Reacting to others and then blaming them for the way you handled yourself — Amy Morin

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. — Italo Calvino