Betbanks Quotes & Sayings

After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. — Robert Hass

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts. — Truman Capote

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor. — Ronald Reagan

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work. — Bill Dedman

He pushed the thought into a mental closet. It was a thing he was good at. There was all sorts of stuff in that closet. — Stephen King

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You must stay away from the one who brings nothing but heartache and death. Do you hear me? He brings nothing but death. Always has. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The heart of a woman is really strange. — Kim Dong Hwa

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. — Barbara Kingsolver

Youth loves honor and victory more than money. — Aristotle.