Wilmington Village Quotes & Sayings

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out. — James Joyce

Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates. — Harold Bloom

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter? — Ray Bradbury

At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food. — M.F.K. Fisher

He rubbed at his chin. I think we're going to have to add a no eavesdropping clause to the house rules. We might have to take out the no sex thing though. — Karina Halle

They were both fomidable, but they were also the two people he cared most about in the world-Worlds-and he just wanted to carry them safley forward to the future he imagined, in which no one's life was at stake and the hardest decision of any given day might be what to eat for breakfast, or where to make love. — Laini Taylor

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death. — Pope Benedict XVI

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems. — Ron Paul

Why do washing machines eat socks? Do they taste good? Should I eat socks? — Jessica Park

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics. — Pete McCloskey

See what is before you, the thing itself. Analyze later. — Eric Weiner

One of the hardest things to accept is learning to live within uncertainty and neither deny it nor hide behind it. Most of all, to listen to the messages of uncertainty without allowing them to immobilize me, nor keep me from the certainties of those truths in which I believe. I turn away from any need to justify the future- to live in what has not yet been. Believing, working for what has not yet been while living fully in the present now. — Audre Lorde

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos

what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim." "If — Amor Towles