Awkward Reality Check Quotes & Sayings

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it — Simon Barnes

Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the off button is. — Eric Schmidt

I wished she was a plastic tag strip, easily discarded, the annoyance of her thrown to the floor to be stomped on. — Harlem Dae

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. — Gary Paulsen

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves. — Oli Anderson

Butterflies add another dimension to the garden, for they are like dream flowers - childhood dreams - which have broken loose from their stalks and escaped into the sunshine. — Miriam Rothschild

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that. — Helen Oyeyemi

In a time when, as Woodson puts it, 'book sales trump the quality of ideas... — Joseph A. Tainter

It's only young people who make giant, life-altering decisions based on what other people might think, and it's because they don't see their own death looming. Their fear is, "Will my family, friends and lovers admire me?" whereas an older person's fear is that vision of themselves lying in a hospital bed, a breathing tube up their nose and the thought running through their heads, "Why didn't I at least try to do what I wanted to do, while I had the chance? — PatriciaV. Davis

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell. — Pat Buckley

Pacifiers are also blamed for delayed language development, which seems logical, too - how's he going to talk with that thing in his mouth? - but there's no evidence for this either. There is evidence that the lack of evidence hasn't stopped people from making the claim: a British speech therapist even admits she was disappointed her study's data showed no link between pacifiers and speech problems. And teeth? Pacifiers only screw up the palate if used past the age of five, well after the vast majority of children have stopped. — Nicholas Day

I am going home. You and your lady can stay here and rot. Or have a tea party. I really don't care. — Rosamund Hodge

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares. — Khalil Gibran

The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me ... — Michael Jordan

There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect. — Jim Butcher