Cringe Tattoo Quotes & Sayings

Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change is a shock; every shock is a pro tanto death. What we call death is only a shock great enough to destroy our power to recognize a past and a present as resembling one another. — Samuel Butler

You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me. — Dominic Cooper

The only reason men fail is because of broken focus — Mike Murdock

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it. — Liya Kebede

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham

I think we should all earn our place in the world. [ ... ] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything. — Rachel Vincent

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs! — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation. — Wendell Willkie

Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable people is important. — John Steinbeck

One is so apt nowadays to regard even one's own motives and actions during the War with a contemptuous cynicism that it is as well to remind oneself of emotions which were profoundly and sincerely felt. — Compton Mackenzie

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth. — Umberto Eco

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. — William Osler

Of observable and verifiable events in the past is a product of the modern — Reza Aslan

What's the big story?" he asks.
"We're slacker playboys with trust funds, renting a house on Isla Mujeres."
"So, aside from the house, you're pretending to be you? — Gayle Forman

Cole steps forward, his fingers reaching around my shoulders, and kisses me.
It is sudden and smooth and soft as air against my lips. The wind whips around us, tugging at the fabric of our clothes, but not pulling us apart.
And then it's gone, the cool pressure against my lips, and my eyes are open and looking into two gray eyes like river rocks.
"/That's/ what you wanted to show me?"
"No," he says, his fingers slipping down my arms as he leads me off the path and out, away from Near. "That was just in case. — Victoria Schwab