Berrow Primary Quotes & Sayings

And this is the difference between me and the rest of the world: most people can let their feelings shift without a wildebeest smashing them up from the inside, but I, for some reason, cannot - and, still, I am more human than wildebeest so I'll never be exempt from the human need for other people to be near, but because I am part wildebeest they can't be too near, and I would like to apologize for that but I can't apologize for that, I can't apologize to everyone who deserves an apology for it, unless no one deserves anything, in which case, what a relief, because I can give everyone that nothing - I can give them nothing all day. — Catherine Lacey

The other people I don't take too seriously are the critics - except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they're just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it's spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they've rediscovered old, and they're celebrating detail and ornamentation. — Donald J. Trump

Your right is to work, and not to expect the fruit. The slave-owner tells the slave: 'Mind your work, but beware lest you pluck a fruit from the garden. Yours is to take what I give.' God has put us under restriction in the same manner. He tells us that we may work if we wish, but that the reward of work is entirely for Him to give. Our duty is to pray to Him, and the best way in which we can do this is to work with the pick-axe, to remove scum from the river and to sweep and clean our yards. This, certainly, is a difficult lesson to learn. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it. — Lindi Ortega

Back in the shadows, in the darkest part of the garden beside the hedge, the skinny choreographer was making out with the younger member of the writer couple. I saw a hand slip inside a shirt and looked the other way. — Herman Koch

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist. — Juliana Hatfield

What did we possess of real value? ... For no one saw anything around him or in him which really belonged to him. It reached the point where we were just eight beggars, possessing nothing ... — Rene Daumal

Our intuition is always operating for us. — Susan Jeffers

Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. ... "Built-in" does not mean unmalleable; it means "organized in advance of experience."3 — Jonathan Haidt

This afternoon it rains as never before; and I
don't feel like staying alive, heart. This afternoon is pleasant. Why shouldn't it be?
It is wearing grace and pain; it is dressed like a woman. — Cesar Vallejo

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak. — Mahatma Gandhi

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. — Mark Twain

if he can't help but
degrade other women
when they're not looking
if toxicity is central to his language
he could hold you
in his lap and be soft
honey
that man could feed you sugar and
douse you in rose water
but that still could not
make him sweet

-if you want to know what the type of man he is — Rupi Kaur

I believe that life is a beautiful journey to find out the beauty of life. — Debasish Mridha