Vranovsk Kemp Quotes & Sayings

Forever. To create a family with a spouse is one of the most fundamental ways a person can find continuity and meaning in American (or any) society. I rediscover this truth every time I go to a big reunion of my mother's family in Minnesota and I see how everyone is held so reassuringly in their positions over the years. First you are a child, then you are a teenager, then you are a young married person, then you are a parent, then you are retired, then you are a grandparent - at every stage you know who you are, you know what your duty is and you know where to sit at the reunion. You sit with the other children, or teenagers, or young parents, or retirees. Until at last you are sitting with the ninety-year-olds in the shade, watching over your progeny with satisfaction. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. — Thomas Browne

The error is this: it is proper for a creator to be optimistic, in the deepest, most basic sense, since the creator believes in a benevolent universe and functions on that premise. But it is an error to extend that optimism to other specific men. First, it's not necessary, the creator's life and the nature of the universe do not require it, his life does not depend on others. Second, man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only to him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be. The decision will affect only him; it is not (and cannot and should not be) the primary concern of any other human being. — Ayn Rand

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thoughts = words inside our heads Images = pictures inside our heads Sensations = feelings inside our bodies. — Russ Harris

I thought I wanted to be degraded, but I wanted to be degraded with love. You wanted me to talk during sex and what came out was, "You hate me. — Fiona Helmsley

No reward compares to the gift of love that my son shares — Paul Rodricks

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time. — George Shearing

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives. — Les Brown

My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don't really love shopping. — Danielle De Niese