Barbara Quotes
'I don't remember if I thanked you for saving me, ' he said. 'So thank you.''You're welcome.' 'Though after this morning, I've added you to the list of those trying to kill me.'
In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.
The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age
I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar, ' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a spl
Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.
Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.
When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.
She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.
His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.
One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?
He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting, ' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.
That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: "Nobody else is going to do this.
The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.
England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.
It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.
Those cloudy nights when the stars fail to appear, I miss them terribly. But I know in my heart they are still there and, sometimes knowing has to be enough
I remember thinking as a child that diamonds were stars that fell from the sky as shooting stars. You can only imagine my disappointment at learning the truth of them. I still prefer the stars.
His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.
These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It’s become my identity. If that’s gone, where am I?
He believed that rank without power was a sham.
I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.
He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.
The affair made men feel larger than life.
Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.
One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.
Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.
I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.
