Southlands Aurora Quotes & Sayings

People blush at praise
not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. — C.S. Lewis

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. — Norman Thomas

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology. — Douglas Trumbull

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy. — Saint Augustine

I lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she's going to a party, I'll let her borrow a mascara or moisturizer. — Kate Winslet

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself. — Rebecca West

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians. — Ernest Hemingway,

Girl in school, she was hot as a two-dollar — John L. Parker Jr.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read. — Samuel Johnson

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back. — Jodi Picoult