Voergaard Castle Quotes & Sayings

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction
that would not be anything to be deplored
but a weakness of conviction. — Franz Kafka

Once this had been the life I'd wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn't believe that there had been a time when this kind of monotony and silence, this most narrow of existences, had been preferable. Then again, once, I'd never known anything else...
My mother had to know I was unhappy. But it didn't matter: all she cared about was that I was her Macy again, the one she'd come to depend on, always within earshot or reach. I came to work early, sat up straight at my desk and endured the monotony of answering phones and greeting potential homebuyers with a smile on my face. After dinner, I spent my hour and a half of free time alone, doing accepted activities. When I came home afterwards, my mother w ould be waiting for me, stickingher head out of her office to verify that, yes. I was just where I was supposed to be. And I was. I was also miserable.
~Macy, pg 306 — Sarah Dessen

Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening, — Elizabeth Gilbert

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place. — Zhang Ziyi

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence. — Richard Mourdock

Never hope for it more than you work for it. — Rita Mae Brown

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture. — Wangari Maathai

A company may be the de jure owner, but customers are the de facto owers of the brand. — David Wolfe

Talent always rises to the top — Amy Astley