Verdins Nest Quotes & Sayings

There is a fascinating chaos to life; but there is always a message in the mess ... always. — Steve Maraboli

Poetry had everything to teach me about life. — Diane Ackerman

When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

Pain is the price of power. — George R R Martin

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine. — Claudia Schiffer

Iliad's subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be. — Adam Nicolson

You are pregnant, with child, in the family way. People, some of whom you hardly know, will begin to comment on your belly size. They might even give it a rub, like you have strapped an animal of some kind in your front side and given total strangers permission to pet you at their leisure. — Amy E. Spiegel

I can't help but find it both painful and beautiful that Warner lost a mother and gained two brothers in the same week. — Tahereh Mafi

What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl. — Lidia Yuknavitch

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems. — Cheryl Heller