Carousers Quotes & Sayings

Our Lord is a foot washer, not a controller. — Chris Travis

We don't just build on successes, we also build on failures. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Ford was beginning to behave rather strangely, or rather not actually beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way that was strangely different from the other strange ways in which he more regularly behaved. — Douglas Adams

Why did I feel warmed by imperfections, discomfort, and patina?
Because intense living leaves scars, and I could not find such scars anywhere in America. Inner scars, softened, human wear and tear. — Anais Nin

Unknown guests, with invincible and worldly carousers, and it became necessary — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. — Stephen King

I never could figure out how those people like Bukowski could be both carousers and writers at the same time, because to me writing takes as much destructive energy as it takes to be a really good professional drunk. — Dan Chaon

A good name is better than precious ointment. — Solomon

You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all. — Rainbow Rowell

We are all carousers and loose women here;
How unhappy we are together! — Anna Akhmatova

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet. — Peg Bracken

The faith I was finding was jagged and more difficult. It wasn't about abstract theological debates: Does God exist? Are sin and salvation predestined? Or even about political/ideological ones: Is capital punishment a sin? Is there a scriptural foundation for accepting homosexuality? It was about action. Taste and see, the Bible said, and I did. — Sara Miles

Ideally a hug should be done long and hard enough to fit all the broken pieces together. — Jury Nel

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth. — Soren Kierkegaard

It was more than physical attraction; it was the broken thing inside him she loved most of all, the unreachable place where he kept his sadness. Because that was the thing about Peter Jaxon that nobody knew but her, because she loved him like she did: how terribly sad he was. And not just in the day-to-day, the ordinary sadness everyone carried for the things and people they had lost; his was something more. If she could find this sadness, Sara believed, and take it from him, then he would love her in return. — Justin Cronin

Being content isn't good enough. You deserve so much more - passion, joy, and excitement... — Nancee Cain

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with. — J.K. Rowling