Clara Barley Quotes & Sayings

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time. — Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is the only thing that when you give it, you get it in return. — Ashwin Sanghi

I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer. — Michael Chabon

Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives. — Michael Meade

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. — Joan Chen

Chairs are public, and one only needs to seek permission to sit in another's chair if the owner of the room is present; once you were by yourself, any chair was fair game. Except the chairs of really important people - one should not sit on a throne when left unattended in a monarch's throne room; that really was going too far. And yet who would miss such an opportunity? There could surely be little doubt but that visitors — Alexander McCall Smith

So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse, that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nassariyeh the latter a city which briefly rose in successful revolt against Saddam in 1991 why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad? — Robert Fisk

Since the strength of the chain is determined by the weakest link, then the first step to improve an organization must be to identify the weakest link. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good. — Saint Augustine

The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that! — Maelle Gavet

What had he been Thinking? If a fella was looking for love, I was the wrong road to go down. I was the road, in fact, that was crawling with barbed wire and bears and dynamite, marked with huge signs that said THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU HERE. — Joshilyn Jackson

He linked his fingers with hers. And because he had used it when he'd hurt her, he balanced that out by using it now. "A ghra."
"Huh?" A line appeared between her brows. "Is that Gaelic again?"
"Yes." He brought their joined fingers to his lips. "Love. My love. — J.D. Robb

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.' — Peter Capaldi