Vigouroux Quotes & Sayings

This was where war happened, in someone's backyard. Sometimes it was yours. Often, it was someone's a world away. But it did happen. In this moment. In the next breath. Every day.
Every day, someone lived in the midst of destruction and chaos. Every day, someone's flower boxes filled with gunpowder's haze, a child's laughter turned to tears. There had been a day when someone watered those flowers in the evening's peaceful quiet and the children caught fireflies in mason jars. And that day will come again, when the crickets and the bullets no longer have to compete for the night's stage. But for now, all anyone could do was fight on the crickets' behalf. — Kelseyleigh Reber

Reggie was so sick of it all. The things people knew (or thought they knew) about other people. Maybe everyone had a secret life, not just Vera. She suddenly hated all of it. She wanted people to be as see-through as fish tanks, no more murkiness, no misdirection. No lies and bullshit. No secret rooms or lies about being the star of some goddamn play that didn't even exist. — Jennifer McMahon

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein. — Mo Ibrahim

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it. — Timothy Keller

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? — Marcus Aurelius

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light. — Joyce Carol Oates

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics. — Keith Barry

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy. — Jeremiah Burroughs