Chaperoned Events Quotes

#1. If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.

Stuart Wilde

#2. I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.

Courtney Love

#3. The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

Marina Warner

#4. Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

Bill Nye

#5. The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

#6. And being special is the best way of being different.

Fredrik Backman

#7. Trouble was, they never let on to their sons how scared they was - so scared they forgot the color of a man because he could outshoot the man who scared 'em. And bein ashamed, they never talked about it or discussed it in the family.

Peter Matthiessen

#8. If a man without a woman, as it says in a passage in the Talmud dear to the heart of Kafka, is not a man, then it is Amshel who became a man, even though on the point of death, but it is Franz who narrates this odyssey and teaches us how to become Amshel, how to become a man.

Claudio Magris

#9. The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.

Alma Luz Villanueva

#10. Fall whispered through the window this morning, Hello, I'm here.

Eileen Granfors

#11. I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Amy Grant

#12. In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

Julia Gillard

#13. She kissed him like he was a warrior; she kissed him like she was a warrior.

Sherman Alexie

#14. I was a big Oasis fan.

Bryan Greenberg

#15. Real affection does not see anything in terms of 'rights', nor does it even care if it is reciprocated. It merely waits by the door and hopes."
From 'A Walking Shadow

E.M. Swift-Hook