Special Aunt Birthday Quotes & Sayings

People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die. — Edie Campbell

The Nineteenth Century And After
Though the great song return no more
There's keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave. — W.B.Yeats

a wise man is not afraid to face the truth — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up. — Peter Carey

In such cases, each hemisphere might well have its own beliefs. Consider what this says about the dogma - widely held under Christianity and Islam - that a person's salvation depends upon her believing the right doctrine about God. If a split-brain patient's left hemisphere accepts the divinity of Jesus, but the right doesn't, are we to imagine that she now harbors two immortal souls, one destined for the company of angels and the other for an eternity in hellfire? — Sam Harris

The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied. — Jeff Cooper

So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we're so concerned about what we want. — John Wooden

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. — John Barth