“This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.”
Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies
Source: Lords and Ladies
Source: Vampire Academy
“This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.”
Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies
Source: Lords and Ladies
“I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.”
Margaret Peterson Haddix book Into the Gauntlet
Source: Into the Gauntlet
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“If we love mankind, pity them, we even wish to suffer for them.”
William Dean Howells (1837–1920) author, critic and playwright from the United States
A Hazard Of New Fortunes, Ch. XI
Context: The life of Christ, it wasn't only in healing the sick and going about to do good; it was suffering for the sins of others. That's as great a mystery as the mystery of death. Why should there be such a principle in the world? But it's been felt, and more or less dumbly, blindly recognized ever since Calvary. If we love mankind, pity them, we even wish to suffer for them. That's what has created the religious orders in all times--the brotherhoods and sisterhoods that belong to our day as much as to the mediaeval past. That's what is driving a girl like Margaret Vance, who has everything that the world can offer her young beauty, on to the work of a Sister of Charity among the poor and the dying.
Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist
“I began to compromise my Christian values — partying and dating guys who weren't Christians.”
"Enough Is Enough: Donna Rice Hughes" Interview by Ramona Cramer Tucker, Christianity Today International/Christian Reader Woman magazine, September/October 1996, Vol. 18, No. 5, Page 42
Hamid Karzai (1957) President of Afghanistan
laughter <br class="br"> Commencement Address to Boston University Class of 2005 http://www.bu.edu/news/2005/05/22/transcript-of-president-hamid-karzais-commencement-address/ (May 22, 2005) <br class="br">2005