Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. ~Ruth Ann Schabacker
Can an afternoon revert? ~Carrie Latet
History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ~David McCullough
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~Mickey Mantle, 1970
How did I know that someday - at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere - the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ~George Eliot
If there's no chocolate in heaven, I'm not going. ~Author Unknown
Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell
When she first felt her son's groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover's caress, it brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm. ~Milan Kundera
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. ~Peter Minard
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. ~Sir Winston Churchill
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. ~Joe Walsh
It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. ~Abraham Lincoln
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~Author Unknown
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. ~Franklin P. Jones
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ~Derek Walcott
I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. ~Mark Twain I am enamored with desert dew because it's usually the closest thing we get to rain. ~Linda Solegato
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. ~John Howe
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. ~Author Unknown
Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. ~John 3:8
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. ~William Morris
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~Mark Twain
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