Yahoo Djia Quotes & Sayings

And is it not strange most strange that one says of a thing that it is full, when it is not full at all, but not of a thing that is empty, if it is not empty? And perhaps the reason for that is this, that when one fills, one seldom fills quite full, for that would not be convenient, whereas when one empties one empties completely, holding the vessel upside down, and rinsing it out with boiling water if necessary, with a kind of fury. — Samuel Beckett

But she was aware that the story you think you know is never the real one. She — Lily King

Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -"the solid state of "water. — Pearl Zhu

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language — Mary Balogh

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there. — Bobbie Ann Mason

We may prefer a more primitive analysis: that when you defeat an enemy you are required to eat his heart. In this way is your victory recorded with The Gods. In this way too do The Gods ensure the continuation of their amusement: you consume the heart of your enemy so that it can no longer be said of him that he exists
except as he exists in you. — E.L. Doctorow

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better. — Frank E. Peretti

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen. — Anne Lamott