Blithedale Romance Quotes & Sayings

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. — Fred Frith

I love different folks. — Eleanor Porter

Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey I'll either be an outlaw, or I'll be dead. — E.J. Squires

Is this the happiness you seek?" he whispered hoarsely. "Tell me now, and I will give it to you." He
moved down her body, his mouth on her bosom, his breath hot on her skin, and his hand freeing her
breast. Phoebe ran her fingers through his hair, thrusting her breast forward as he took the peak into his
mouth.
This was insanity!"Only a profligate would confuse happiness with desire - Oh!" The swell of pleasure
his mouth on her breast gave her was startling, and she cried out.
"And only a fool would try and separate the two," he responded hotly before he closed his mouth
around her other breast — Julia London

Or, suppose you want to motivate your managers to ship products on time, so you conspicuously promote each manager whose product goes out the door on schedule. All goes as planned until the situation arises in which one of your managers has a project where the testers are reporting numerous problems. Because managers who have shipped products on time have been promoted, this manager thinks, I want that promotion so I need to ship this on time, but those bug reports are getting in the way. I know what I'll do! I'll put the testers on another project until the developers have a chance to catch up. — Gerald M. Weinberg

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies. — Epictetus

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity ... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Whenever you become empowered,
you will be tested. — Caroline Myss

You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story. — Isaiah Austin

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer. — John Oates

People with BPD tend to judge themselves and others in extreme ways. They will often use excessively positive terms, idealizing or glorifying, or excessively negative terms, demonizing or devaluing themselves or others. They look at themselves with harsh and critical negative self-judgments that increase their sense of shame. — Valerie Porr

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized. — Monique Coleman

Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors,
And all this our very utmost toil
Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength
Whether in oxen or in men, we dull
The edges of our ploughshares, and in return
Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed,
And so today the farmer shakes his head,
More and more often sighing that his work,
The labour of his hands, has come to naught. — Lucretius

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? — Scott Turow