Sjaals Esprit Quotes & Sayings

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. — Thucydides

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him. — Freya Stark

It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment — Zach Braff

So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously — Dalai Lama

children are. Moms to push their swings. Dads to wipe the dirt off scraped knees. Beyond the park there's a water — Jenny B. Jones

Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody's business. You keep your nose out of your White Lady's problems, you don't go crying to her with yours - you can't pay the light bill? Your feet are too sore? Remember one thing: white people are not your friends. They don't want to hear about it. And when Miss White Lady catches her man with the lady next door, you keep out of it, you hear me? — Kathryn Stockett

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
My heart ... not so much. — Simone Elkeles

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother. — Willard Scott

The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more the art of blending in with the background than sneaking through dark shadows. — Raymond E. Feist

I like being unconventional. — Florence Griffith Joyner

After a minute, you continue writing.
she screams again.
you wonder how long this can go on. — Raymond Carver

Later...later you can kiss me and not let go. — Jennifer Murgia