Birinin Quotes & Sayings

No offense to you, lady, but he's my dad and there's a whole family factor here that you're helping to break up." I turned my hand around and gave her a thumbs up. "But good for you. I'm sure my dad will pay you with lots of dinners and diamonds. If you don't get the private jet ride while you're sleeping with him, you're doing something wrong. — Tijan

I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could I be making here a true orgy of what's behind thought? — Clarice Lispector

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded. — Christina Applegate

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. — Thomas Merton

I know I always carry her with me, and to have a piece of her grace shine through me is a gift I will continually strive to earn. — Esther Earl

That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and therefore the highest beauty is forever vegetative; and the same is true for morality and love. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

As Shakespeare said, 'The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.'4 — Jonathan Sacks

To resuscitate can help prolong a patient's life, but giving respect and showing sincerity can add value to it — Raymond Garcia

If the eyes of a female cry over a man that oppressed her, than the Angels will curse him with every step he walks. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're reclaiming America and restoring honor. I believe we do that with faith, with hope, with charity, and honoring our brothers and our sisters as we honor each other. — Alveda King

It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten. — Neil Gaiman

Gothic lines grimmer; the soft brilliance of the altar, with its multitude of candles, with the priests performing actions whose meaning was unknown to him; the silent crowd that seemed not to participate but to wait anxiously like a crowd at a station barrier waiting for the gate to open; the stench of wet clothes and the aromatic perfume of incense; the bitter cold that lowered like a threatening unseen presence; it was not a religious emotion that he got from all this, but the sense of a mystery that had its roots far back in the origins of the human race. His nerves were taut, and when on a sudden the choir to the full accompaniment of the orchestra burst with a great shout into the Adeste Fideles he was seized with an exultation over he knew not what. — W. Somerset Maugham

What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person? ... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside. — Amy Tan

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. — Max Beerbohm