Personal Papers Quotes

#1. After someone's death, how strange to see the value drain away from his or her possessions; useful objects such as clothes, or dish towels, or personal papers become little more than trash.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#3. In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

Catharine MacKinnon

#4. Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

James Baldwin

#5. This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?

Hal Holbrook

#6. I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

David Walliams

#7. People are willing to believe the easy, boring answer because they're afraid to dream big and hope that the truth could actually be as exciting as they imagine.

Debbie Viguie

#8. You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,' so we need to be everywhere but we need to continue to surprise and delight our customers in a relevant and consistent way wherever they are.

Mark Schaefer

#9. Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted ... [T]wo or three stinging strokes on the legs or buttocks with a switch are usually sufficient to emphasize the point, 'You must obey me.'

James Dobson

#10. Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

#11. If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

Leonard Cohen

#12. Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.

Rumi

#13. It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because ... you are always me.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#14. A straight face is an ignorant man's attempt to appear knowledgeable.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. There are still times when I stop dead in my tracks when I see you, and wonder how you're mine. You're beautiful; and your fire for life, and strength after everything you've been through, amazes me. So if anyone leaves the other speechless, it's you.

Molly McAdams

#16. Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Jean De La Fontaine