Villines Trio Quotes

#1. A self-help guru would call this attitude "bending in the wind," but I just call it "giving up.

Gary Reilly

#2. All my life I've read that the life of the mind is preeminent, and that it can transcend all bodily degradation. But that's just not my experience. When your body has to deal all day with shit and string beans, your mind does too.

Marilyn French

#3. His lips move against my hair. "I'm sorry, Senna."
I tremble. He's sorry? Him? "For what?" There is a million year pause.
"I couldn't save you this time."
I cry into his chest. Not because he couldn't. Because he wanted to.

Tarryn Fisher

#4. There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.

Noam Chomsky

#5. I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

Busta Rhymes

#6. Connoisseur, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. The reunion, she decided, was an unnecessary and stressful complication to life. We did not need to reheat cold dishes from the past.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.

Marcus Thomas

#9. It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Jean-Paul Marat

#10. Each life is a kind of assignment, I believe," Eliza told her. "You're given this one assigned slot each time you come to earth, this little square of experience to work through. So even if your life has been troubled, I believe, it's what you're meant to deal with on this particular go-round.

Anne Tyler

#11. We are most fully ourselves when we admit that we are emotional beings, that we are defined by the ways we find though our behavior to express all these myriad emotions constantly bubbling beneath the surface of us as we try our fragile best to reason our way through the world.

Greg M. Epstein

#12. It was soon clear to the Raveloe lasses that he would never urge one of them to accept him against her will - quite as if he had heard them declare that they would never marry a dead man come to life again.

George Eliot

#13. A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

Claud Cockburn

#14. All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

Charles Churchill

#15. An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Aiden Wilson Tozer