Kennedy Quotes
I don’t mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.
My days are filled with you, and for that I am more grateful than you could ever know
The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades
Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world
There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.
If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Never discipline whom you've not discipled.
To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.
All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)
In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.
Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.
Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn’t be bored.” Garrett Graham, my own personal sweet-talker.
In the blink of an eye, the fairytales told to children were as real as death and taxes. Vampires, shifters, trolls, demons and creatures of myth, were as real as the air we breathe.
Every girl dreams of waking up one day, a princess. Until that day kicks you in the face, wearing steel toed boots.
If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.
I was out of Hell Fire and my black market dealer was dead.
Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.
She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.
I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?
There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.
The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.
Treatment for people with disabilities and mental illness in prewar America reveals a profoundly ignorant medical establishment and educational community.
The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.
Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.
Think goal setting is too laborious and time wasting? Try the goalless life and your regret will be unpardonably regrettable
Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?
You're so beautiful, " he told her. Her laughter tickled his ears. "You realize you're looking at my back, right?" "Mmm-hmmm. And it's a very beautiful back.
Never in her wildest dreams would she have pegged this man as a dirty talker. Just went to show that you should never underestimate the quiet ones - and never let your guard down around them either.
She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he'd met her.
You can talk to me, you know. I'd never give away your secrets.""What's that saying about secrets?" she said lightly. "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Are you going to put some clothes on?" she blurted out."No. Are you going to take yours off?""No.""Right. Of course not.
Is he always like this?" she said irritably. "Flying by the seat of his pants?""Pretty much, yeah." Oliver grinned. "He's not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I've ever known.
Stop. Talking."Her whisper was muffled against his lips, and his answering chuckle was muffled by hers."What would you have me do instead?""For starters? Put your mouth to better use.
Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light. X. J. Kennedy, "Street Moths, " The Lords of Misrule