Uncrossed Answers Quotes & Sayings

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence. — Samuel Johnson

Marriage is not
a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder:
the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn
the edge of the receding glacier
where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far
we are learning to make fire — Margaret Atwood

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. — Napoleon Hill

If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. — Manuel Puig

My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust. — Kate Morton

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. — Herman Melville

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity. — Mason Cooley

Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. — Bryan Stevenson