Townsfolk Miniatures Quotes & Sayings

When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman. — Margaret Thatcher

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. — Albert J. Nock

Call me crazy, but I kind of like actually
you know
being attracted to the girl I'm making scream my name out loud." "Do you, Reeve? Do you make them scream your name out loud?" Reeve raised an eyebrow playfully. "Every. Single. Time. — Lauren Blakely

The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness? — Milan Kundera

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity? — Tilda Swinton

Christians are not powerless. We have the mighty power of God available through God the Holy Spirit, even in this world. — Billy Graham

When people ask me about my hometown, I tell them it was called after a wolf before it was partially tamed and settled. — Jesmyn Ward

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies. — John Piper

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever. — Junot Diaz

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice. — Henry Rollins