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Kory's Favorite Quotes |
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Illuminating bits of truth, humor and poignancy. |
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"Careless words stab like a sword, but wise words bring healing." Proverbs 12:18, NCSV |
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Overheard
a time or two "Can't never could." - Mom "I wish it'd stay like this six months and then turn off real pretty." - my Papaw, who would say this during a spell of nice weather. "Go
Vols!" - Dad |
Kory
says, "When
I was a teenager, I started writing down quotes that I liked, and I
haven't stopped. Here are some of my favorites."
At times, although one is perfectly right, one's legs tremble; at other times, although one is completely in the wrong, birds sing in one's soul. - V.V. Rozinov It takes faith to write the words you know are true, words you are certain that you mean, even when you have to admit that you do not know exactly what they mean, let alone whether they are literally true. - Kathleen
Norris in her essay "Truth" from "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstien And Silvaney, oh Silvaney, I am beautiful! Beulah said we look good in red but we look even better in nothing. I am beautiful! - Ivy Rowe in a
letter to her sister Silvaney in Lee Smith's The mirror tells only the facts, never the poetry. - Mary Sarton She pressed her eyes closed and pleaded for the only saint she knew personally, but a saint is very little help when it comes to smuggling a married man into an opera singer's bedroom. - Ann Patchett in Bel Canto It's all right to be that pretty if you cry about it. - said of the beautiful Crystal Spangler in Lee Smith's Black Mountain Breakdown Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. - George Washington Carver Happiness is a form of courage. - Holbrook Jackson "Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility. - Rose N. Franzblau, M.D. |
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