Vicariously Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

She had a wild impulse to seize the stout, good-natured nun by the shoulders and shake her, crying: "Don't you know that I'm a human being, unhappy and alone, and I want comfort and sympathy and encouragement; oh, can't you turn a minute away from God and give me a little compassion; not the Christian compassion that you have for all suffering things, but just human compassion for me? — W. Somerset Maugham

He's weeping, his face dissolving in his hands. It's exhausting. People hiding behind the asteroid, like it's an excuse for poor conduct, for miserable and desperate and selfish behavior, everybody ducking in its comet-tail like children in mommy's skirts. — Ben H. Winters

I would love to know who killed my father. So would my brother." Her next words stunned me and left me breathless. "We want to forgive them. We want to forgive, but we don't know who to forgive. — Desmond Tutu

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time. — Jim Davis

The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring . — Jacob Bronowski

Why does anything left-wing have to be trendy before it's read, and by the time it's trendy it's already a force for conservatism? — Julian Barnes

Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives. — Nita Ambani

the only way to find peace was to kill everyone who threatened it. — Amy Tintera

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. — Mary Shelley

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government. — Mark Sanford