Snowballs New Orleans Quotes & Sayings

There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles — Steven Hall

The tyrant had said our backgrounds were similar, and in some ways they were. — Ann Leckie

My thoughts swim. Back and forth, in and out, across the tides of history — Kate Morton

so true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations. — Eric Metaxas

My problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks ... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ... they at least make my art more interesting — Hiroko Sakai

Taiwan is an independent sovereign country. — Chen Shui-bian

I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself. I was demonstrating externally and irrefutably an inward condition. — Susanna Kaysen

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. — Margaret Lee Runbeck

How can one remain free of every weakness, above all of the most deadly, of love? — Bertolt Brecht

Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius. — Hannah More

Today we ought to add to these terms the latest and perhaps most formidable form of such dominion, bureaucracy or the rule by an intricate system of bureaux in which no men, neither one nor the best, neither the few nor the many can be held responsible and which could be properly called the rule by Nobody. — Hannah Arendt

Not every job is a good job. — Henry Cavill

Sanctification is not regeneration. — Matthew Simpson

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli