Sharon Olds Famous Quotes
"The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful..."
Sharon Olds Quotations
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
"Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid."
Jed Seidel
The grave is the general meeting place.
Thomas Fuller
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."
Benjamin Disraeli
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
James Grover Thurber
You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W Bush
"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W Gardner
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine