Borkel Simes Quotes & Sayings

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart. — Joe Rogan

To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and then to meet tranquil Mrs. Fairfax, and spend the long winter evening with her, and her only, was to quell wholly the faint excitement wakened by my walk, - to slip again over my faculties the viewless fetters of an uniform and too still existence; of an existence whose very privileges of security and ease I was becoming incapable of appreciating. What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling life, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined! Yes, just as much good as it would do a man tired of sitting still in a "too easy chair" to take a long walk: and just as natural was the wish to stir, under my circumstances, as it would be under his. — Charlotte Bronte

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right. — Haruki Murakami

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.] — Oscar Wilde

Her fingers moved gently in his hair. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously. — John Steinbeck

The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures. — Faran Tahir

It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather. — Niccolo Machiavelli

To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.
If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while. — Fernando Pessoa

There is nothing as beautiful as two wonderful souls in love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we're stressed, our brains persistently mis-predict what will make us happy. — Kelly McGonigal

Adversity deprives us of our judgment. — Tacitus