Soifer Quotes & Sayings

These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into the ages and forward untold years. Here are bits of eternity, which have a preciousness beyond all accounting. — Harvey Broome

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all. — Margaret Atwood

Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the dead grew. — Sarah Winman

I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal. — Twyla Tharp

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us
but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience. — Jostein Gaarder

The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last — Sabrina Carpenter

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead. — Philip Johnson

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue — Elizabeth I