Sparagmos In Modern Quotes & Sayings

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain

My first poem was a bolt from the blue ... it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy — William Carlos Williams

Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico. — Lupita Nyong'o

There would be no communion between him and us if he did not first come to us with his grace. — John Calvin

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time. — Jane Smiley

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic. — Judith Martin

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form. — Shelley Berman

The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn't have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn't want to go there. — Kerry Greenwood

If you manage a situation, not just things happening there, people should feel elevated just being in that space. Above all, you must feel wonderful being there. — Jaggi Vasudev

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all. — Veronica Roth

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is. — Franz Kafka