Chialingosaurus Quotes & Sayings

She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy. — Lisa Kleypas

Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out. — Joan Connor

Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort. — Terry Rossio

He had spent seven years of his life with Tereza, and now he realized that those years were more attractive in retrospect than they were when he was living them. — Milan Kundera

Its evolutionary adaptability is largely gone. Ecologically, it has become moribund. Sheer chance, among other factors, is working against it. The toilet of its destiny has been flushed. — David Quammen

Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table. — Jhumpa Lahiri

She was drained from the shock and fear of looking at the emotional wreckage of real humans, desperate people with little hope and looking to her for help. — John Grisham

I fell in love the moment I saw her in her grandfather's kitchen, her dark curls crashing over her Portuguese shoulders. 'Would you like to drink coffee?' she smiled.
'I'm really not that thirsty.'
'What? What you say?' Her English wasn't too good. Now I'm seventy-three and she's just turned seventy. 'Would you like to drink coffee?' she asked me today, smiling.
'I'm really not that thirsty.'
'What? What you say?' Neither of us has the gift of language acquisition. After fifty years of marriage we have never really spoken, but we love each other more than words can say. — Dan Rhodes

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. — Camille Paglia

Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster. — William F. Buckley Jr.

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere - "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous. — C.S. Lewis

At IBM everybody sells! Every employee has been trained to think that the customer comes first - everybody from the CEO, to the people in finance, to the receptionists, to those who work in manufacturing. — Buck Rodgers

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis ... — Gautama Buddha