Shriving Time Quotes

#1. Cinderella was the first fairy tale I remember - the one I was most obsessed with because of the gowns and magic and pretty shoes. Yes, her home life was less than ideal - and considering the talking mice and birds, she probably needed serious therapy.

Cindi Madsen

#2. Some people, no, you're never going to change their opinions. It doesn't mean you have to accept it. If they're bold enough to stare or make snide little comments under their breath, then they need to be bold enough to say it to my face.

Lena Matthews

#3. The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#4. (The Queen had real power, and a woman in power, feared as virile, is often accused of being a slut.

Susan Sontag

#5. Depression has descended like a bell jar around me.

Kristin Hannah

#6. But we simply can't attune to another in ways that no one has attuned to us. We can't open in another what is closed in ourselves.

Teri Quatman

#7. The role I really want to sing is Elisabetta from 'Don Carlo.'

Anna Netrebko

#8. The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Julian Barnes

#9. ...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.

Kate Morton

#10. The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.

Christopher Isherwood

#11. I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.

Al Franken

#12. One thing about a skunk - once you recognize the markings, you know things are gonna stink.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. Whether it's social class status or your economic status, it is very evident that the top, if they get their way, will survive and be strong. They will lead those who are helpless, in many ways, to suffer.

Edwin Hodge

#14. Friends are like stars you don't always see them but you know their always there

Anonymous

#15. The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Plato