Vesta Adcock Quotes & Sayings

Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that. — Waylon Jennings

I have been telling myself
that these feelings are new,
but they aren't,
I just didn't connect them before — Samantha Schutz

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes. — Rick Heinrichs

Resolved untested was moot. — Laura Lee Guhrke

We keep electing council members for appearance sake, it doesn't mean anything, and it is just a show for the people, so that they may sleep well at night with their delusion of peace. — S.R. Gibbs

Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing. — Stephen King

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:
Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck.
Yours truly,
Earl Adcock
P.S. I'm not deaf. — Fannie Flagg

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet. — William Logan

If you had ordered British troops to drive children and old people into gas chambers, none of whom had done anything wrong except they were the children of their parents, can you imagine British troops doing anything but mutiny against such orders?
"Well, as a matter of fact there were some Germans, soldiers, officers, priests, doctors, and ordinary civilians who refused to obey these orders and said, 'I am not going to do this because I would not like to live and have this on my conscience. I'm not going to push them into gas chambers and then say later I was under orders and justify it by saying they were going to be pushed in by someone anyhow, and I can't stop it and other people will push them more cruelly. Therefore, it's in their best interest that I shove them in gently.'
"You see, the trouble was, not enough of these people refused. — Leon Uris

The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment. — Tara Brach

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. — Chuck Schumer

You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it. — Grizz Chapman

I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together - the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired. — Terry Tempest Williams

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos. — Billy Collins