Jean Astruc Quotes

#1. I'm so fucking tired of being alone. I was scared that he'd tell me to fucking leave. Because that means going back to a life I can't see for myself anymore.

Krista Ritchie

#2. I sat there, letting the idea of starting again soak in, finding beauty in the balance of life. We have ups and downs, and how we deal is up to us.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#3. Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs.

Colum McCann

#4. In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

Hanna Rosin

#5. I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.

C.J. Roberts

#6. As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

David Korten

#7. It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

David Rudisha

#8. Those who will not learn
in plenty to keep their place
must learn it by their need
when they have had their way
and the fields spurn their seed.
We have failed Thy grace.
Lord, I flinch and pray,
send Thy necessity.
"We Who Prayed and Wept", p. 211.

Wendell Berry