Shirakess Quotes & Sayings

That's the damnedest story I think I've ever heard. It's so unbelievable, I actually believe it. — Janelle Denison

So when someone new came into this world of preordained power structures, someone who looked like they might understand a certain kind of emptiness, you might notice her. — Kate Scelsa

A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity. — Peter J. Wetzelaer

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize. — Carol Moseley Braun

This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again. — Daphne Du Maurier

People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely — Jeanne Birdsall

He had the kind of looks that made breathing irrelevant — Kristan Higgins

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. — Johan Huizinga

Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due. — Liz Murray

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner. — Richard John Neuhaus

With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature. — Alice Meynell