Cukes Quotes & Sayings

You can't understand where you should be going until you understand what you were created to be. — Norma Gail

Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed. — Anne Rice

But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter. — Glenn Beck

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it. — Bill Gates

People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature. — Tammara Webber

I'm not a movie-based person, in terms of how it affects my career, the industry. I don't care about that. I probably haven't been too smart about that. — David Caruso

Sorrow ought to be private, she thinks, not flaunted. — Khaled Hosseini

I've wiped the file? ... I've wiped all the files? ... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem! — Eddie Izzard

My go-to drink is a mix of cukes, kale, apple and other healthy stuff. — Noureen DeWulf

Not as we are but as we must appear,
contractual ghosts of pity; not as we
desire life, but as they would have us live,
set apart in timeless colloquy.
So it is required; so we bear witness,
despite ourselves, to what is beyond us,
each distant sphere of harmony forever
poised, unanswerable. It is without
consequence when we vaunt and suffer,
or if it is not, all echoes are the same
in such eternity. Then tell me, love,
how that should comfort us-or anyone
dragged half-unnerved out of this worldly place
crying to the end "I have not finished."
From 'Funeral Music — Geoffrey Hill

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there. — H. Richard Niebuhr

I know nothing of any phantom,' replied Aethelfrith. 'What sort of phantom is it presumed to be?'
'Why,' replied the merchant, 'it takes the form of a great giant of a bird. Men hereabouts call it King Raven.'
'Do they indeed?' wondered the friar, much intrigued. 'What does it look like - this giant bird?'
The merchant stared at him in disbelief. 'By the rood, man! Are you dim? It looks like a thumping great raven. — Stephen R. Lawhead

It's not that I'm weak, it's that I'm scared of most things. — Dan Bergstein