Subsection Heading Quotes & Sayings

Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know. — Taite Adams

For me, adoption was grief in reverse. — Jody Cantrell Dyer

I could imagine his sorrow. My father had a sensual relationship with his books. He loved feeling them, stroking them, sniffing them. He took a physical pleasure in books: he could not stop himself, he had to reach out and touch them, even other people's books. And books then really were sexier than books today: they were good to sniff and stroke and fondle. There were books with gold writing on fragrant, slightly rough leather bindings, that gave you gooseflesh when you touched them, as though you were groping something private and inaccessible, something that seemed to tremble at your touch. And there were other books that were bound in cloth-covered cardboard, stuck with a glue that had a wonderful smell. Every book had its own private, provocative scent. Sometimes the cloth came away from the cardboard, like a saucy skirt, and it was hard to resist the temptation to peep into the dark space between body and clothing and sniff those dizzying smells. Father would generally return — Amos Oz

If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy. — Ray Bourque

The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard. — Khalil Gibran

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one. — Fanny Fern

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.' — Tom Hanks

A spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. — Pope Benedict XVI

I'm just an ordinary girl. An ordinary girl serving and extraordinary God. — Katie J. Davis

a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor. — Amos Oz

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure. — Stanley Fish