#Fun Quotes #Writing Quotes
“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.”
“...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon spiritual re-orientation.”
“Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.”
Source : Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand
“If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.”
“There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?”
“President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.”
“I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.”
“This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.”
Doris Grumbach Novelist
Kingman Brewster, Jr. Educator
Leora Tanenbaum Author
Lynne Sharon Schwartz Writer
Mary McCarthy Author
May Sarton Poet
Vern Rutsala Poet
