Orzeszkowa Quotes

#1. Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

W. H. Auden

#2. Perhaps the reason memoirs are so often written by the young these days is that, once you reach a certain age, only fiction might allow you to truly make your way back to childhood.

Tom Engelhardt

#3. Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Claudius Claudianus

#4. I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.

John Cleese

#5. With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances,

Honore De Balzac

#6. If you were to let me fuck you, you would have to let me own you.

J.A. Redmerski

#7. In Moonlight
No
Soft sweet paw on my cheek
No
Fur curled under my chin
Just
A sad space left behind -
Gray cat gone away.

[Ellie's poem]

Patricia MacLachlan

#8. Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

Cornelia Funke

#9. Teachers always promise that students are in a "safe place," but most of us figure out that's a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime.

Brian K. Vaughan

#10. I like helping people.

Lori Greiner

#11. Focus on the journey not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Greg Anderson

#12. I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

Tommy Hilfiger

#13. The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Joy Browne

#14. You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Robert Charles Wilson