Quondam Quotes

#1. The density and permanence of the mansion were, of course, at ironic variance with the fact that the quondam master of the house, except for one hour in every fifty-nine days, was no more substantial than a moonbeam.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. But today when people talk about the history of Hopkins's relationship with the black community, the story many of them hold up as the worst offense is that of Henrietta Lacks - a black woman whose body, they say, was exploited by white scientists.

Rebecca Skloot

#5. After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.

Linda Alfiori

#6. Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

Ellen Glasgow

#8. The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

Peggy Noonan

#9. The lights have been dimmed and the window is awash in the blackness and he can see a hairline fracture of dawn against the horizon.

Dominic Smith

#10. Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. - Jonathan

Helen Boswell

#11. Racing takes everything you've got
intellectually, emotionally, physically
and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Janet Guthrie

#12. As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

Gloria Allred