Shefelbine West Quotes & Sayings

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become. — Rush Limbaugh

It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can't) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on. — J.M. Barrie

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor

When people have been oppressed for so long; they become immune to it.They sometimes see oppression as the alternative means to oppressed others. — Henry Johnson Jr

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost — Thomas Merton

Lije . . . yeah, that's it, baby . . . God, fuck . . ." And then Tom came, spurred on by Prophet's climax, dragged along for the ride. — S.E. Jakes

Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have a name for the true beliefs which are the typical product of these reliable capacities. They call them items of knowledge. So I argue that talk of knowledge may thereby be seen to be embedded within a successful empirical theory. — Hilary Kornblith

This was like discovering your vanilla cupcake had a chocolate fudge center. — Genevieve Dewey

Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. — Julia Child

For me now, I feel that climbing is a part of who I am. It's my way of life. It's my way of expressing myself. My way of being in the world. In the past, I questioned it a lot. Now it's obvious. This is who I am. This is what I do. — Chris Sharma

You can get a slouchy woman's tunic at different price points. But if you want a great pair of trousers or a dress with delicate pleating, you're going to have to spend a little more. — Natalie Massenet

Man's lesson is another man's tale, but often, a man's tale can be another's lesson. — Cecelia Ahern

Mimi knew now what she had to do. To save their bond, to save themselves. She had to destroy Schuyler Van Alen. — Melissa De La Cruz