Urbaine De Travaux Quotes & Sayings

We do more talking progress than we do progressing. — Will Rogers

I couldn't figure out which of these ideas, if any, was at the core of the poem. But thinking about the grass and all the different ways you could se it made me think about all the ways I'd seen and mis-seen Margo. There was no shortage of ways to see her. I'd been focused on what had become of her, but now with my head trying to understand the multiplicity of grass and her smell from the blanket still in my throat, I realized that the most important question was who I was looking for. If "What is the grass?" has such a complicated answer, I thought, so, too, must "Who is Margo Roth Spiegelman?" Like a metaphor rendered incomprehensible by its ubiquity, there was room enough in what she had left me for endless imaginings, for an infinite set of Margos. — John Green

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.
She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said. — Cormac McCarthy

She said this watching my eyes as if she were testing the edge of a blade on me. And so I made sure not to flinch. — Alexander Chee

Whatever you're feeling is what you're vibrating and what you're vibrating is what you're attracting — Lynn Grabhorn

I'll tell you one thing about history - we leave a lot of carnage in our wake. — Eowyn Ivey

And I have faith that you'll make a wonderful head of the Council someday, Sophie.
Yeah, except for that whole sleeping with the enemy part, I thought. Wait, not that I would actually be sleeping with ... I mean, it's a metaphor. There would only be metaphorical sleeping. — Rachel Hawkins

So if we want to get rid of our suffering, what we have to do is eliminate this conception of a self or "I." Now, we are very fortunate because it is possible to get rid of this concept of "I." The reason it is quite possible to eliminate this concept is that the object we conceive of as a self doesn't exist. — Kenchen Thrangu

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. — Eric S. Raymond

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York. — Eliot Spitzer

You mess with my sister, you're messing with me! — Loretta Livingstone