Misfocusing Quotes

#1. No one could say, looking at her lined, pale and puffy face, the shapeless garish sack she had double-pinned around her, or the misfocusing eyes and slack wet mouth, that she had led the right life, and she knew it, not even with Freud's fist could she repress that ...

William H Gass

#2. Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

Claire Tomalin

#3. We are all potential murderers, and we are all potential rapists and abusers.

Volkmar Sigusch

#4. You can't underestimate anyone.

Serena Williams

#5. There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

Melissa Etheridge

#6. orders. This report closely resem bles the Purchase Journal.

Elaine Marmel

#7. The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

#8. Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life.

Joyce Meyer

#9. In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.

Miyamoto Musashi

#10. Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tears
Shed o'er her, beloved for years?
Who shall say the dark dismay
Which her dying caused that day?

Christina Rossetti

#11. Every pain has a gain behind it

Swami Satchidananda