Vilhelmina Gedgaudas Quotes & Sayings

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings. — Joseph Hall

The birds of anonymity fly high above in our shared sky. Witness their beauty. — Truth Devour

In an era that exalts individual autonomy above all other values, the state as a practical matter has long since forfeited its authority to command citizens to defend the nation. — Andrew J. Bacevich

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows. — Betty Friedan

Ah! I--to you, Petrovitch, this--" It must be known that Akakiy Akakievitch expressed himself chiefly by prepositions, adverbs, and scraps of phrases which had no meaning whatever. — Nikolai Gogol

Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand. — Arthur Adamov

Hardship is the hardest moment to soften the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita