Aunt Esther Quotes

#1. Aunt Esther: You think you supposed to know everything. Life is a mystery. Don't you know life is a mystery? I see you still trying to figure it out. It ain't all for you to know. It's all an adventure. That's all life is. But you got to trust that adventure.

August Wilson

#2. At least," Mother said, "that's the story Aunt Esther tells."
"What do you mean?" I asked. "Isn't it true?"
"Stories are never 'true'," Mother said. "But they may, almost by accident, contain 'truth'. Sometimes.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. What other hope does life hold out
But the miraculous, the skilled and patient
Execution, the teamwork, all the pain and worry every miracle involves?

Weldon Kees

#4. Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Therese Of Lisieux

#5. All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

Ann Voskamp

#6. The first loss is the best loss.

Jim Rogers

#7. Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.

Benjamin Millepied

#8. In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn't the end.

Jo Walton

#9. If we could read minds, we wouldn't need headsets.

Tommy G. Kendrick

#10. Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!

Theodore Roosevelt

#11. My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd,
Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave;
For though we like it, as a forward child,
'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

William Davenant

#13. If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#14. There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

Pearl S. Buck

#15. There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

Michael Josephson

#16. When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can make up his own mind.

David Mitchell