Positive Patchwork Quotes

#1. Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#2. And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.

Stephen Colbert

#3. This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.

J. E. Buckrose

#4. Where music leads, I follow.

Alexander Wang

#5. It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

John Walker Lindh

#6. If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

Atul Gawande

#7. Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

Paul Simon

#8. we don't get to choose what trials we will face. We can only choose how we will face them.

Andrew Hunter

#9. I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off before."

Ginny eyed the sheriff severely. "Not fourteen-year-old girls who had grandmas like Evelyn Larkin.

Michael McDowell

#10. There was a trout.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

Jeffrey Steingarten

#12. Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

Laurence Sterne

#13. I am. I exist. I embrace my inner quiet and let it replenish me.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#14. Swampy [ Marsh] and I live as far away from each other as we possibly can and still work together. But we just always felt like we were funnier when we were in the room together than we are when we're separate.

Dan Povenmire

#15. He beheld Lourdes, contaminated by Mammon, turned into a spot of abomination and perdition, transformed into a huge bazaar, where everything was sold, masses and souls alike!

Emile Zola