Absolute Net Quotes & Sayings

Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply cherished grievances. — Christie Golden

If you work now, you'll play later. If you play now, you'll work later. — Dee Dee M. Scott

I simply don't accept losing well. I just feel whatever it takes to win, you have to do it. — Ed Belfour

The first time I saw Giggsy, he was playing for Salford Boys against United's apprentices. He was thin and wiry but he just glided past four of our apprentices as if they weren't even there, then he put the ball in the back of the net. I just thought 'This kid's an absolute natural' — Bryan Robson

The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca ... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference. — Marcus Lemonis

The motive power of democracy is love. — Henri Bergson

No matter how far you go, you can never be anything but yourself. — Haruki Murakami

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace. — Philip Yancey

In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. — Elizabeth Bowen

There are things about God that are mysterious and secret, things we will never know about Him. But there also are things revealed, and those belong to us (Deut. 29:29). — Francis Chan

Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. — Ambrose Bierce

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall. — Michael Ondaatje

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene. — Lenny Kravitz

. . . they lurk passively, like vampire sheep — Margaret Atwood

When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say. — Harper Lee

Many coping strategies have a Zen simplicity. Instead of resolving chaos, find beauty and happiness amid chaos. I am reminded of a friend who said that when she found out her husband couldn't fill her needs, she changed her needs; — Andrew Solomon