Adjani Costa Quotes & Sayings

Mate after mate we find ourselves trying to adapt to who they want us to be till eventually we lose our true identity. We spend countless years learning each mate but never take the time to learn ourselves. In the end we know our mates better than we know ourselves. If and when the mate walks away we are stuck living with a stranger, ourselves. If u can't find comfort in urself how can anyone else find comfort in u? — Al-Saadiq Banks

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others. — Martin Fowler

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling ... — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of course. Women are agile and fast." Poppy smiled ruefully. "Not enough to elude you, it seems."
- Harry & Poppy — Lisa Kleypas

Something's about to end. Or start. I'm not sure. I just know we're not in the middle anymore. It's safer in the middle. — Jim McCann

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges. — Frederick Lenz

Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness — Randall Robinson

A sign on the door proclaimed: The countess is NOT to be bothered except in the cases of death, disembowelment, the Apocalypse, or the arrival of her mother. — Courtney Milan

She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win.
p. 246 — Ann Packer

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. — Frank Bruno

I didn't think I had anything to give you, that I'd lost you to this city. But I have me, Rachel, I can give you me. — Faleena Hopkins

Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. ( ... ) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable. — Jonathan Sacks