Florence Vaine Quotes

#1. If that's true why did it jump into the swamp?" Alex asks. "No normal horse would do that. Jump into a lake for a swim maybe, but not a swamp, unless it was a suicidal horse.

L. H. Cosway

#2. If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

Alberto Manguel

#3. [On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#4. When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears
I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

Irving Stone

#5. While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

Meles Zenawi

#6. What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?

Oriah Dreamer

#7. But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.

Marissa Meyer

#8. Nobody ever oohs and aahs over wiring conduits and sewer lines.

Ian Tregillis

#9. Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

Mary Oliver

#10. Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Al Lopez

#11. Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.

William F. Schulz

#12. Would it surprise you to know that a presence was on your back a few seconds ago?

Teresa Flavin

#13. She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.

Edna O'Brien

#14. Seriously? There was a condom brand called Rough Rider? Why not just go with F**k Her Hard and be done with it?

Tara Sivec