Goretti And Lawrence Quotes

#1. I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

Juliet Marillier

#2. Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save ... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

Barbara Coloroso

#3. Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It's then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future.

Ron Baratono

#4. I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and I don't know what.

Ray Bradbury

#5. What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We are all like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given - it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

Donald Miller

#6. I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.

Michael Newdow

#7. And I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

Paulo Coelho

#8. I don't like that sort of school ... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged ... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.

Charles Dickens

#9. First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking was a better predictor of their happiness than what they were doing.

David Michie

#10. Was Eve's sin so much greater and more unforgivable than Adam's that the entire female gender must forever be treated with suspicion and controlling measures?

Alan F. Johnson

#11. Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

Homer

#12. Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

John Banville

#13. A life without investigation is not worth living

Plato