Vetherna Quotes & Sayings

Anyone looking back at the log later, trying to piece together a mystery, would find nothing but times and dry entries. It was a lazy Sunday. What made it meaningful were not the facts or details, but the imperceptibles. Inner life. The smell of the beach grass and the feel of sand on a bathroom floor when changing out of a swimsuit. The heat of American summer. Line ten of the log read simply: 10:22 Condor ate second breakfast. It couldn't capture the perfect toasting of the onion bagel or the saltiness of the fish in contrast with the thickness of cream cheese. It was time lost in a book - a journey of imagination, transportation - which to others simply looks like sitting or lying stomach-down on the rug in front of a summertime fire, legs bent at the knees, up ninety degrees, kicking absently, feet languid in the air. — Noah Hawley

I want to have as normal a life as possible. — Michael Owen

But what's done is done — AliaZalea

But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight. — Sarah Dessen

There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art. — Claude Simon

The sanest member of the party is always the first to lose it. That's how you know they are on the right track — Gina Damico

The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight. — Marianne Williamson

The No. 1 criticism most managers get is that they don't ever change or wait too long to make changes ... It's very simple: Either things are performing or they're not. And if it's not performing, we have to make changes. — Tim Armstrong

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders. — Plato

And of course she enjoyed life immensely. It was her nature to enjoy. Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything. If you walked with her in Hyde Park now it was a bed of tulips, now a child in a perambulator, now some absurd little drama she made up on the spur of the moment. — Virginia Woolf

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in. — Dwight Gooden

A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is my eternal right to love you. And I will fight for that right until the sun sets on my life. — Tillie Cole