Burros And Fries Quotes & Sayings

Joy
Is for the simple or the great to feel,
Neither of which we are. — Philip Larkin

I slipped my hand into hers. A strange and unfamiliar feeling ran through me. It felt like the ocean, like sunlight, like horses. Like love. I searched my mind and found the name for it. Joy. — Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have seen what they are. There is scarcely an evil known in these countries, which may not be traced to their king, as its source, nor a good, which is not derived from the small fibres of republicanism existing among them. — Thomas Jefferson

she dug her fingernails into her palm — Katherine Amt Hanna

My mother was an oyster," he said with a wink. "And I'm the pearl. — Leigh Bardugo

Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born. — Pamela Clare

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen. — H.L. Mencken

Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It was not simply that I frenziedly desired what I could not have. That was but a blunt and unrefined kind of suffering. I was condemned to be with her even in her very rejection of me. And how long and how slow and how long-drawn-out that rejection would be. Still temptation would follow where she was. Endlessly she would give herself to others taking me with her. Like an obscene puny familiar I would sit in the corners of bedrooms where she kissed and loved. She would make consort with my foes, she would adore those that mocked me, she would drink contempt for me from alien lips. And all the time my very soul would travel with her, invisible and crying soundlessly with pain. — Iris Murdoch

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships. — Martin Seligman

I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. NOTHING WAS ALPHABETIZED! — Mitch Hedberg