Strenger Obituary Quotes & Sayings

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood ... A day will come when we shall see ... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas. — Victor Hugo

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness. — A.S. Byatt

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. — Seneca.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. — Philip Sidney

Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us. — Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman

He is a sort of steady man in a wild way, you know. That's better than to be as some are, wild in a steady way. I am afraid that's how I am. — Thomas Hardy

You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember that it's your child - whichever one is unhappy. — Anne Tyler

she worked and prayed for the welfare of humans for over ten million years. Then she was transformed into a goddess whose only desire was to ease the world's pain. — Kris Waldherr

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable. — Jonathan Swift

And her eyes. I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman's eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me. — David Foster Wallace

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune. — Sophocles

Three. I had just made my first, second, and third kill. Before I had even obtained my mage's robes. I bent over and vomited into the grass. There was no pride, no justice, just the appalling sense that I had lost my innocence. That I was a monster. — Rachel E. Carter

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated. — Patrick Marber

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream. — Nina Simone

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. — Jess Walter