Shrift Unscramble Quotes & Sayings

It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it. — Linda Alfiori

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s. — Barbara Castle

The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism. — Lev Grossman

Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them. — Bernie Siegel

You know, when once you've discovered a secret yourself, it always seems as if it must be so obvious to everybody else. — A.A. Milne

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans. — John Henrik Clarke

I imagine the feelings of two people meeting after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. The same recollections? That's where the misunderstanding starts: they don't, have the same recollections; each of them retains two or three small scenes from the past, but each has his own; their recollections are not similar; they don't intersect. — Milan Kundera

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals. — Missi Pyle

Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime. — Kenneth Eade

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages. — Byron Nelson

If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing! — Fred A. Hartley Jr.