Dating Doon Quotes & Sayings

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an 'improvise, adapt and overcome' mentality. — Bear Grylls

With the help of the janitor he screwed on to the side of the desk a pencil sharpener - that highly satisfying, highly philosophical implement that goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must. — Vladimir Nabokov

If you ain't scared, there's nothing to be brave about. — Joe Rossi

Sex is not a wizard, whatever magical-seeming properties it might possess in its better forms. If your friend says to you, "You're being mean, you need to get laid," your problem is not sex. Your problems are that you might be acting like an asshole, and your friends are definitely idiots. — Katie Heaney

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. — Pablo Picasso

Men who are cut off, careful, and closed are also lonely and just as vulnerable in a different way as their wives alone in a dark alley after midnight. — James MacDonald

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance. — Narada Michael Walden

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate. — John Ortberg

A house is not a home until it has a dog. — Gerald Durrell

A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart. — Tom Baker

Somewhere, deep behind my ribs, in a place I didn't know existed, my heart opens up like one of those blooming tea bags, the ones that start out tiny and dark and then blossom like a flower. I've never let someone kiss me before. I've never let myself want to let it happen. It's as unreal as everything else but far more welcome. — Delilah S. Dawson

And many a day's hours were like that.
As if someone fashioned my likeness somewhere
in order to torment it slowly with needles.
I felt each sharp prick of his playing,
and it was: as if a rain fell on me
in which all things change. — Rainer Maria Rilke