Bowling And Drinking Quotes & Sayings

Each human being deals with hurt or resentment in a unique way. When you feel insulted or bullied, you may reach for a chocolate bar. In the same circumstance, I might burst into tears. Another person may put his or her feelings quickly into words, confronting the mistreatment directly. Although our feelings can influence how we wish to act, our choices of how to behave are ultimately determined more by our attitudes and our habits. We respond to our emotional wounds based on what we believe about ourselves, how we think about the person who has hurt us, and how we perceive the world. Only in people who are severely traumatized or who have major mental illnesses is behavior governed by feelings. And only a tiny percentage of abusive men have these kinds of severe psychological problems. — Lundy Bancroft

Taking a couple short backup swigs, Flint's crippling headache started to release its grip, sort of the way he imagined an octopus would release an inedible bowling ball. — Cole Alpaugh

Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men. — Erich Von Stroheim

I opened up to you and you judge me — Matthew Quick

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane. — Charles Bukowski

If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . . — John Gribbin

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind. — Richard Carlile

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience; — Charlotte Bronte

My salvation does not hinge on my emotions. I have an official record. I have the Word of God: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life." — Adrian Rogers

Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, — Joe Abercrombie

What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky