Yarn Harlot Irish Cottage Quotes & Sayings

(A few years ago in Fushun, China, two dolphins ate strips of their tank's vinyl lining and were saved by Bao Xishun, a 7'9" Mongolian herdsman who appears in the Guinness Book of World Records as "The World's Tallest Man." When surgical tools failed, Xishun reached down the dolphins' throats with his forty-two-inch arms and extracted the plastic.) — Susan Casey

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger? — Barbara Kingsolver

Life is not about disappointments but lessons. — Evans Biya

All of us look younger and sweeter when we smile our real smiles, the ones that come when we're genuinely happy. — Stephen King

Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan. — Queen Latifah

Make no mistake:
Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn't surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent you were. — Carlos Roche

We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community. — Desmond Tutu

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well. — William P. Leahy

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people. — Virginia Woolf

I am swimming and it is just sunrise, the sky so gray as to be almost invisible. I rise to the surface to breathe and that's when I see the dark shadow of a boat, gliding gently toward me in the water. Men ride in the boat, their faces grim and greedy and silent, and as I turn to watch them I feel a bite in my side, a piercing pain. — Kendall Kulper

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.) — William Boyd

Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art — Solnit, Rebecca

ART
The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's. I wish that I could touch you and be sure that it was the right thing to do. I only want to touch you briefly. Just once so that you will know. We are flesh and blood and full of faults. But we are also full of warmth. The world is full of confusion but there is compassion in its midst. communication via simple touch can transmit so much of us in just one minute. Like a painting or a piece of music. I want to touch your soul. I only wish I could be sure it was the right thing to do. — Jay Woodman

Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies. — Jack Thanatos

If one mouse is a spark ... then ten thousand are a conflagration. — Carmen Agra Deedy