Vescovi Quotes & Sayings

Is God to blame for what I myself have done? — Swami Vivekananda

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,
for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband? — Samuel Johnson

I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder. — John Cheever

Instead of noting down things I'm unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words. — Paulo Coelho

Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed — Eddie Vedder

God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.'
'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife.
'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him. — R.L. LaFevers

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something. — Moon Unit Zappa

We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend. — Dan Barker

...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.] — James Vescovi

You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. — Jeanette Winterson

I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? — Mason Cooley

As far as the welfare of every other living form on earth was concerned, the human project was not just a failure, it was a mistake from the very beginning. — Ian McEwan

Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. ... According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober teachers to go around. [Author's grandparents educational background.] — James Vescovi

Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions. — Farshad Asl

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic. — James Vescovi