87114 Quotes & Sayings

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. — Will Durant

Patrick's handsome face descended toward mine. He stopped when he was just a whisper away. "You have a beautiful mouth."
God, he was magnificent. Such harsh, sensual beauty. The luck of genetics and vampirism and gym time? Who knew?
He watched me watching him and I knew he was probably in my head, listening in on my thoughts, my confusion. He grinned, just a little, and I knew that rotten, ugly, fat troll was reading my mind.
He laughed, unrepentant, and his breath plumed my lips. How the hell did he do that? How could he pretend to breathe? Or better yet, why did he pretend to breathe? — Michele Bardsley

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know. — Milos Forman

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same. — E.B. White

These values are signposts toward another way of living: simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of life; balance of physical, intellectual, and spiritual life; work without pressure; space for significance and beauty; time for solitude and sharing; closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittency of life. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful. — Alice Hoffman

All of us are selling ourselves, every single minute of every single dayeach one of us is building our own 'brand of me' and saying 'buy into me, put your faith into me, give me this shot, I will make it happen.' — Kimora Lee Simmons

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown. — Erma Bombeck

Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it. Fools search for freedom, but there is no freedom. There is only the embrace. — Brian Staveley

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose. — Ann Brashares

Violence: these days, it is all the rage — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. — Sallust

If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem. — Jeph Jacques