Zaszys Quotes & Sayings

How many more investment bankers need to show up in court before people stop incriminating themselves in writing? — Penelope Trunk

...adding to the miseries competing for my attention... — Suzanne Collins

I am willing to work with anyone that wants to do what is best for this country. — Allen West

Because the minister's wife refused to leave the minister, and because my mother required a worshipful companion, she was forced to break up with Fern and secure herself a new mate. As luck would have it, Dr. Finch had recently begun seeing a suicidal eighteen-year-old African-American girl who had taken a leave of absence from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her name was Dorothy. — Augusten Burroughs

To be generous is the best way to live in this world. — Nirmala Srivastava

The Dean liked to remind us that those fences were there to keep the Ticks out as much as to keep us in. — Emily McKay

In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Like all human beings, Bob [Crane] had feelings and emotions. He danced on the moon, jumped for joy, laughed in ecstasy, and leapt in triumph. He also cried in grief, mourned losses, threw his hands up to the sky in frustration, and felt desperate, scared, sad, and alone. Bob's flaws - the mistakes and bad choices he made, the most difficult moments he faced, and his descent into the jaws of a powerful addiction - were all but a part of his whole life journey. His flaws were merely the specks, like the specks on the Parthenon that comprise any person's entire time on earth... In spite of his flaws, he was a kind person, a joyful person, a talented person, a courageous person - a whole person. — Carol M. Ford

Never run from the enemy, tackle them — Victoria Addino

There is no there---there is only here. — Florence Scovel Shinn

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult.
Truman Capote — Truman Capote

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love. — Alexander McCall Smith

In romance, I can't stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom - and then automatically finds him attractive. I'm sorry, but if I awoke to a strange man in my bedroom, I'd be reaching for a weapon - not admiring the view. — Kristin Nelson

Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one. — David Quammen

The Word in your head is the Word that you know, but the Word in your heart is the Word you live by. — Sunday Adelaja