Villette Holmes Quotes & Sayings

She made a mistake. It happens. We are none of us perfect. — Paula Hawkins

The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers. — Anthony H. Cordesman

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly. — John Piper

If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense. — Chris Colfer

Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there. — Donna Lynn Hope

If you're successful, don't crow. If you're defeated, don't croak. — Samuel Chadwick

Gods were like opossums. You could go your whole life without seeing one, but once you found one of them, you found the whole freaky family. Every — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice — Joan Didion

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. — Pablo Picasso

Both friend and enemy, Faith leads us to the place where we lead ourselves. — Joanne St.Clair

The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors started taking over and taking responsibilities from the regular army, which hides the war. You have these private armies of mercenaries acting with immunity for their actions, the worst of which was the Blackwater case where they killed 17 Iraqi civilians and the guys who did it just went home. We [screenwriter Paul Laverty and Loach] felt this deserved a story. — Ken Loach

Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have. — Stephen Jay Gould

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. — Thomas Jefferson