Strangearmand Quotes & Sayings

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly
something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. — George Eliot

There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good. — Brian Andreas

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves. — Sri Chinmoy

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards. — Junot Diaz

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living. — Annie Dillard

Nobody doan never have touch Porhl! When I little, de brudder try. Oh yeah. I raise up dis bony knee hard in his what he got dere, and dat were dat and nobody since! You hear dis gul, Mr. free man Jacob Early? And nobody since! An I ain't no Jez'bel, she screamed. In this way was Pearl's decision made, and by the time they were on the march through Milledgeville she was drummer for Clarke's company. She just hit the drum once every other step and they kept the pace, some with smiles on their faces. She looked straight ahead and kept her shoulders squared against the shoulder straps, but she could tell that white folks watched from the windows. And none of them knew she wasn't but the drummer boy they saw. — E.L. Doctorow

I can tell you there are as many kinds of love in the world as there are stars in the sky. — Penny Reid