Vikend Quotes & Sayings

Mother was a falconer. The one who stood on the hills and watched, trying to stave off whatever ill she perceived was coming to her children. She owned copies of our minds in the pockets of her own mind and so could easily sniff troubles early in their forming, the same way sailors discern the forming foetus of a coming storm. — Chigozie Obioma

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything. — Ray Bradbury

If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not ... You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok. — George McGovern

The choice is to listen to the chaos your mind creates or the intuitive wisdom from the heart. — Steven Redhead

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart. — Alexander Pope

The Internet is an excellent invention for people with nothing better to do, and people with something better to do who nonetheless don't want to do it. — Amanda Sledz

As I lay in prison, Sam, I tried to remember the Brandywine, and Woody End, and The Water running through the mill at Hobbiton. But I can't see them now. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine. — Sarah McLachlan

Don't be a chicken, be a cat!" said Cecil. "Be adventurous". — Valerie Martin

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support. — Brene Brown

The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself — William Shakespeare