Jacidie Quotes

#1. Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Arnold Bennett

#2. I almost never have a plan for myself ... I'm not ambitious in that way.

Martha Plimpton

#3. Most Ohioans would be surprised to know that the same Wall Street megabanks which received bailouts from taxpayers in 2009 also receive taxpayer-funded advantages today simply because of their 'too big to fail' status.

Sherrod Brown

#4. Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W.S. Merwin

#5. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form a part of his soul.

Maria Montessori

#6. The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.

Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

#7. All those years I'd kept an outline of my father in my head, like a chalk line enclosing a father-shaped space. When I was little, I'd coloured it in often enough. But those colours had been too bright and the outline had been too large ...

Margaret Atwood

#8. Every time I see myself in print or on TV, I feel like a little white girl. I feel fat.

Bun B.

#9. ...push back the hood of grief...

Anthony Doerr

#10. ...I turned the music back on and reached to turn off my lamp, trying not to think about anything for a few minutes. That's always impossible, though. It's easier to stop breathing than it is to stop thinking.

Robin Benway

#11. Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people out there. All the people who have been energized by the Trump campaign are going to be very, very angry folk if they think that Trump is not well treated.

Ted Koppel

#12. Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. Not all tools are created equal; only time will nudge you to mastery.

Ben Tolosa

#14. Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may never understand.

Jeffrey Fry