Velcome City Quotes & Sayings

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me. — Jenny Holzer

It seemed that my identity had necessarily split, that I'd turned into a different person. I could look at her now and see all that stoic ferocity in her eyes, how she wanted to do something that could never be undone. Something permanent. Some little forever. But I'm not interested in forever. Not anymore. — Catherine Lacey

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls — Ana Saez Gonzalez

Never, ever forget history. — Sukarno

If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it. — Nicholas Sparks

Fair-minded people make a concerted effort to pull their own weight rather than living off the hard work of others. — Frank Sonnenberg

By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people. — Aberjhani

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. — Corrie Ten Boom

Leaning out, or walking away, doesn't mean that you've given up. This — Elissa Shevinsky

A billion and a half human souls, who had been given the techniques of music and the graphic arts, and the theory of technology, now had the others: philosophy and logic and love; sympathy, empathy, forbearance, unity, in the idea of their species rather than in their obedience; membership in harmony with all life everywhere.
A people with such feelings and their derived skills cannot be slaves. As the light burst upon them, there was only one concentration possible to each of them - to be free, and the accomplished feeling of being free. As each found it, he was an expert in freedom, and expert succeeded expert, transcended expert, until (in a moment) a billion and a half human souls had no greater skill than the talent of freedom. — Theodore Sturgeon

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly. — Peter S. Beagle