Shirtwaist Dresses Quotes

#1. Away, down below now, single file on the path, comes a woman with four girls in tow, all of them in shirtwaist dresses. Seen from above this way they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. Be careful. Later on you'll have to decide what sympathy they deserve.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

James Surowiecki

#3. The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#4. Thus, the sweetened breakfast was born, as was a core industry strategy that food processors would deploy forevermore...Just swap out the problem component for another that wasn't, at the moment, as high on the list of concerns.

Michael Moss

#5. I don't know what's worse, your stupidity or your low opinion of me.

Blake M. Petit

#6. These days, though, tolerance means that you accept the other person's views as being true or legitimate. If you claim that someone is wrong, you can get accused of being intolerant
even though, ironically, the person making the charge of intolerance isn't being accepting of your beliefs.

Paul Copan

#7. It's all about perseverance. I just had this attitude ... where failure was just not an option.

Brian Binnie

#8. If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

Stephen Crane

#9. We determine our own price; it is always good to set our price to infinity so that no one can buy us!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#11. The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods.

Richard Rodriguez

#12. the initial ID is George Thomas Irving. Age forty-six of eight - " "Irving as in Irvin Irving? As in Councilman Irvin Irving?" "Scourge of the LAPD in general and one Detective Harry Bosch in particular.

Michael Connelly

#13. I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his records, .. But for him to say that I could, it means I am doing something right. It was probably the best compliment I could get. I'm going to remember it.

Sidney Crosby

#14. Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you've got your own unique take on how weird this world is.

Peter Orner

#15. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Khaled Hosseini

#16. No offense intended to the satanists who might be reading this, but I have found that those who worship the devil tend to be sneaky, more deceitful by far than your average Methodist - and proud of it.

Dean Koontz