Vipond Quotes & Sayings

Live life as a series of revelations — David Brooks

She was the type of librarian who has "Reading is supposed to be educational, not fun" tattooed somewhere. — Molly Harper

We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think. — Lorna Landvik

You can add some class to it by sealing it with wax. This makes me feel like I'm a Baron sending a letter to the Duchess. Look at that sophistication. — Dan Bergstein

But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace - the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors - makes all infirmities occasions of glory. — Robert Farrar Capon

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike. — David Ives

I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence. — Stephenie Meyer

My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem to hold to life but weakly. I used to wonder if it was so because the memory of Heaven still lived within them, so that in leaving here they do not fear death as we do, who no longer know with certainty where it is our spirits go. This, I thought, must be the kindness that God does for them and for us, since He gives so many infants such a little while to bide with us. — Geraldine Brooks

- Why you?
- ( ... ) I'm the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it. — Paul Hoffman

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer — James Clavell

The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship. — Paul Hoffman

What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian? — Ron Paul

The more you communicate love in your relationship, you breathe new life into it. — Elizabeth Bourgeret

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. — Paul Hoffman

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume ... got to bed on my own sheets ... have my own food products. I live on me. — Pierre Cardin

I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects. — Gregory Crewdson

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that. — Tim Cook