Verrieres Fabric Quotes

#1. Neither sad nor gay is the desert - a boundless waste of sand under a burning waste of sky.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#2. As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.

Lorin Maazel

#3. Things, the word she used when whatever it stood for was too distasteful or filthy or horrible to pass her lips. A successful life for her was one that avoided things, excluded things. Such things do not happen to nice women.

Margaret Atwood

#4. The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

Mother Jones

#5. I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

Truman Capote

#6. Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. Human beings are miserable disasters. They make mistakes. Do the wrong things.

Pam Godwin

#8. In marriage, those who persevere are rewarded with the most precious thing this earth has to offer: Marital love
a partnership that conquers the years. It takes time, but those who persevere are rewarded with, falling in love with their spouse.
pg v

Michael Ben Zehabe