Barbara Quotes
If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.
...new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.
...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit?
Always choose the adventure ... unless, it's chilly outside and there's a cup of warm coffee resting near a book and comfy sofa.
She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.
He tore his focus from her mouth, wondering how he could endure thirty days of this torture. Maybe he could make sure he wasn't around when she ate. Whipped cream especially.
I thought you said you didn't want this to happen, " she whispered, still dizzy from his kiss. "That there was too much at stake." "You're a hard woman to resist, Yasmin Katsalos...
When she kissed him this time it was hungry, intoxicating. He let one hand track down her body, feeling her close. "I want you, Yasmin, " he said, his breath ragged. "Badly.
Lane tipped his head nearer so their foreheads gently touched. "I want you more than I've wanted anything in my life, " he said, his voice low and husky. "More than I thought it was possible to want.
There is nothing wrong with you... Life isn't supposed to be easy... It is designed to be challenging so that you will grow into a more conscious, loving human being.
Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?
No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.
Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
The scene is France. The theater is the world.
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.
Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.
Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?
Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.
Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner
Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
Everything took on the color of blood.
She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.
Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?
Every Adventure Has a Back Story. When we look at our past relationships, often there are one or two we may tend to go back to in our minds, and we see them through the magic of the seven veils.
Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.
I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.
The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed
The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.
You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you’re not good enough because they can’t understand who you are.
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?
Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher
No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.
If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.
Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham
Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.
Humility is not just thinking less of yourself or thinking lanyard less of your gifts than others, It is freedom from thinking of yourself at all