Weinreich 1953 Quotes

#1. For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Despite his best efforts, a few scalding tears escaped Cobalt's eyes. He swiped them away. 'Can you stand?'
'I damn well can, if my alternative's you holding me like a wilting female.'

S.W. Vaughn

#3. The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

Mwai Kibaki

#4. It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

Aaron Patzer

#5. Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#6. Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.

Yoko Ogawa

#7. When I sat late, I mean late. A three-year old with insomnia is very similar to a heroin addict going through withdrawal.

Jim Gaffigan

#8. Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

#10. And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238

Alice Walker

#11. We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.)

Francesca Lia Block

#12. There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.

Cobie Smulders

#13. I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it ... But I don't have anyone to express my gratitude to. This is a void deep inside me, a void of wanting someone to thank, and I don't see any plausible way of filling it.

Bart D. Ehrman

#14. We stumble up - we stumble on.

Virginia Woolf