Virpi Sarasvuo Quotes & Sayings

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail. — William Westmoreland

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. — E. M. Forster

I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life. — Peace Pilgrim

The sound of her voice was so pretty, it almost disguised the ugliness of her words. — Grace Burrowes

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do. — Michael Beschloss

If the Vaults were the heart of Rifthold's underworld, then the glass castle was the soul of Adarlan's empire. — Sarah J. Maas

Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever? — Paul Stewart

Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want. — Oprah Winfrey

It can feel so lonely, to see strangers out in the day, shopping, on a day that is not a good one. On this one: the day I returned from the emergency room after having a fit about wanting to remove my mouth. Not an easy day to look at people in their vivid clothes, in their shining hair, pointing and smiling at colorful woven sweaters.
I wanted to erase them all. But I also wanted to be them all, and I could not erase them and want to be them at the same time.
At home, Joseph was nicer to me than usual and we played a silent game of Parcheesi for an hour in the slanted box of remaining sunlight on the carpet. Dad came by and brought me a pillow. Mom went to take a nap. Joseph won. I went to bed early. I woke up the same. — Aimee Bender