Whitlee Matheny Quotes & Sayings

It was like a date - a weird, twisted date that would probably end with them killing something — J. Lynn

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished. — Noreena Hertz

Its sound in her soul was a distant fast train. Love did not bring happiness, it did not last, and it ended in pain. She did not want to believe this, and she was not certain that she did; perhaps she feared it was true in her own life, and her fear had become a feeling that tasted like disbelief. — Andre Dubus

An impassioned spirit truly paints the gray world with color. — Krista Ritchie

I can't think without my glasses. — Vivienne Westwood

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. — D.H. Lawrence

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. — E.P. Thompson

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around. — Dorothy Thompson

While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, a magnificent crosier, - all the pontifical vestments which had been stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, "From Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."
"Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop."
"Monseigneur," murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. "God - -or the Devil."
The Bishop looked steadily at the cure, and repeated with authority, "God! — Victor Hugo

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American. — David Anders

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. — Noah Baumbach

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country. — Philip Yancey

That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music. — A-Trak