Votive Sorrow Quotes & Sayings

As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American while abroad, and a promoter of things European while at home. Moving between two worlds, translating the best of the old into the new and explaining the benefits of the new to the old, he created a role for himself as both intermediary and arbiter. — Jon Meacham

I'm a human being, just like everybody else. I'm up some days and down others. Some days, I just refuse comment. If I'm feeling a little down, I won't say anything. But if I'm really up, I'll let it all hang out. I do have a slight propensity to put my foot in my mouth. — Ted Turner

We've got an entire lifetime ahead of us to do things like get married. But sometimes things in people's lives don't happen in chronological order like they should. Especially in our lives. Our chronological order got mixed up a long time ago. — Colleen Hoover

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order. — Ezra Taft Benson

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable. — Howard Pattee

In the calm violence of your being, desire. — Carole Maso

Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women. — Haruki Murakami

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home. — Lauryn Hill

Because there's no way that anyone would give up on a child in less time than it takes to microwave popcorn. — Shaun David Hutchinson

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. — Herman Hesse