Interesting Quotes

[Rose of Tralee]

"If anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."

Maria Tallchief (ballet dancer)

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[Old Sam]

"What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?"

George H. W. Bush

[_Zoey_]

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing; that is enough for one man's life.

~T.S. Eliot

[Old Sam]

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent."

Barbara Bush

[DC tells it like it is]

“Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.”

― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

(All is well, and I am back around. Hello to all. Missed 'yous)

[Old Sam]

"Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics."

Ann Richards

[La Sunshine]

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

[La Sunshine]

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

[Always Wary]

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.
Enzo Ferrari

[Always Wary]

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie

[ritchlt]

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."

Harry S. Truman

[ms_Sweeter]

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
~ Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery

[ms_Sweeter]

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
~ André Malraux

[ms_Sweeter]

“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.”
~Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

[Old Sam]

"I'm delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like".

Ann Richards

[Princess Hey]

In the end its not the years in your life that count,its the life in your years....Lincoln

[Old Sam]

"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."

Ann Richards

[La Sunshine]

“Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80%of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!”
― Andy Rooney

[La Sunshine]

“Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?

I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.”
― Cher

[Kelly Joanne Cannon]

"We can't be held responsible for other people's actions, only our own."

----Reminding myself with this revised quote that the ultimate truth about me here is that I can't and won't repeatedly and daily return to Apology/Revealy Town, that I'm not crazy, that I'm not an ungodly, negative mean person or lady, that I don't have to and won't apologize for any my standards and beliefs like they're just wrong and mean is all, that other people within the world don't know me better than I know myself, especially from cheap sources, and that I'm never for sale under other people who don't really know me at all either. I mean that always too.