Shillington Quotes & Sayings

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska. — Ben Nelson

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. — Patty Duke

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being. — John Updike

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

You surpise me, because people nearly always force you to ask, don't they? — Jean Rhys

I mean, things happen all the simultaneously all the time - and as a rule, they have nothing to do with each other. Thats how the world works. — Nicolas Barreau

I'd done the impossible. I'd spoken with dragons. I'd survived. I'd kept the dragons from attacking my friends because I was a very frightening tiny person with little regard for her own life. — Jodi Meadows

Many partners of addicts have told me they feel bad about themselves for staying in the relationship because of the betrayal they've experienced. They imagine that the people who know their past judge them to be stupid for staying with the person who's caused them so much pain. I often counter this thinking, explaining that leaving may seem quick and easy because they can pretend they're okay and the problem has disappeared. However, if you leave your relationship, you'll be stuck with your pain and sorrow without the person you loved to help you sort it out. Why is this true? Because even though it feels as if your pain comes from your partner, it's actually coming from inside you. — Alexandra Katehakis

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. — Marie Curie

The past and the present existed simultaneously aboard a ship. — Dan Lopez

Had John Updike been African, he would have won the Nobel Prize twenty years ago. I feel sure that his material hobbled him. Shillington, Pennsylvania, simply did not measure up to his extravagant gifts. And sadder yet are those who haven't even a fraction of Updike's talent and yet must hoe the same arid patch for stories. No — Teju Cole

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. — Edmund Phelps

Commit yourself to excellence. — Mark LaMoure

I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment. — John Green