Spensieri Obituaries Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me in retrospect that the department stores and the dime stores did an excellent job of extending the 'sacred space' of Christmas in those days. And I sometimes wonder whether for people of no religion, this might have been the only sacred space they knew. When people rail now against the 'commercial nature of Christmas,' I'm always conflicted an unable to respond. Because I think those who would banish commercialism from the holiday fail to understand how precious and comforting the shop displays and music can be. — Anne Rice

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Truth has always been relative in China, but political power has not, they say, and the same is still true today. — Rob Gifford

Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move. — Dave Eggers

Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid. — Tanc Sade

You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over. — Justina Chen

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do. — Steve Grand

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter. — Henri Bergson

Your brain is not designed to make you happy. That's your job! — Tony Robbins

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there. — Ozzy Osbourne

You know that I love you.
And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew knew that the other mother loved her as a possession, nothing more, a tolerated pet whose behavior was no longer amusing. — Neil Gaiman

I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go. — Conor McGregor

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war? — Ralph Nader

An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority. — Rose Wilder Lane