Barreness Quotes

#1. Elizabeth's barreness and advanced age
a double symbol of hopelessness
became the means by which God would announce to the world that nothing is impossible for Him.

Charles R. Swindoll

#2. What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

Charles Baudelaire

#3. the silence of the void, as if the world stopped breathing and

Rick Yancey

#4. Being a junkie, when you broke it down, was nothing more than a crazed day job.

Jerry Stahl

#5. A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. Your ambition has cost you dear, sir, Hal said, trying to keep a rein on his fury. In victory a true warrior must show forbearance, his father had once said. He must not give in to the base instinct for revenge.

Wilbur Smith

#7. Grover: It's a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that's because he's laughing at me.

Rick Riordan

#8. It is my hope that as South Carolina senators, that we will stand up for what is best and good about our state.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#9. We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.

Walter Russell Mead

#10. When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

George Meyer

#11. What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.

Judd Hirsch

#12. My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

Amy Bloom