Soames Hill Quotes & Sayings

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community. — Bell Hooks

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy. — Frederick Lenz

The Old Poets Of China
Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist. — Mary Oliver

The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day. — Jose Saramago

Vanity does not pay the bills. — Robert Black

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years. I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time. — Jeff Sessions

Wash her face," says Dalton. Everyone turns to him. "She's still a girl and you made her look thirty-five. Feels wrong. Like something the Capitol would do." As — Suzanne Collins

Everyone has their heaven. — Adam Baker

Wafted by a favouring gale
As one sometimes is in trances,
To a height that few can scale,
Save by long and weary dances — W.S. Gilbert

I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used to. Take any American city, in autumn, or in winter, when the light makes the colors dance and flow, and look at it from a distant hill or from a boat in the bay or on the river, and you will see in any section of the view far better paintings than in this lentil soup that you people have to pedigree in order to love. I may be a thief, but I know color when I see it in the flash of heaven or in the Devil's opposing tricks, and I know mud. Mr. Knoedler, you needn't worry about your paintings anymore. I'm not going to steal them. I don't like them.
Sincerely yours,
P. Soames — Mark Helprin

I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does. — Erykah Badu

Lowering my gaze , I walked to my seat, settling in next to Kriss.
"Seriously America?" she whispered.
I tilted my head in her direction. "I'm sorry?" I replied, feigning confusion.
She put her silverware down, and we stared at each other. "You look trashy."
"Well, you look jealous. — Kiera Cass

Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working. — Shakti Gawain

They're not just interested in one sort of music any more. — Lester Bowie