Balikbayan Boxes Quotes & Sayings

In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman. — Kate Del Castillo

Skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his — James Joyce

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow. — Hester Lynch Piozzi

Stop and consider! life is but a day — John Keats

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken. — Ernest Hemingway,

If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do — Seth Godin

I give you a small serenity. — Robin McKinley

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. — Rebecca West

I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.' — Banks

My mother says that I have a knack for remembering what others forget. Sometimes it's a curse; nobody likes it when there's somebody to remember what they've tried so hard to bury. — Cecelia Ahern

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine. — Fuzzy Zoeller

Like energy, life can only transform and transcend, never vanish. — Debasish Mridha

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds. — John Niven

Aside from helping people with their homework, or anything else they needed, she really didn't know how to meet people. She didn't feel like she was a shy person. She thought of herself as a take-charge sort of girl. And yet, somehow, if there wasn't some request along the lines of "I can't remember how to do long division" then it was just too awkward to go up to someone and say ... what? She'd never been able to figure out what. And there didn't seem to be a standard information sheet, which was ridiculous. The whole business of meeting people had never seemed sensible to her. Why did she have to take all the responsibility herself when there were two people involved? Why didn't adults ever help? She wished some other girl would just walk up to her and say, "Hermione, the teacher told me to be friends with you". — Eliezer Yudkowsky