Dayrise Residential Quotes & Sayings

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child. — Donald Miller

He reached over and took Taylor's hand. She did not pull her hand away.
He moved his hand up her arm. She stiffened a little and glanced around, making sure they weren't seen. Or, maybe, hoping they were.
His hand reached her neck. He leaned toward her and pulled her to him.
He kissed her.
She kissed him back.
He kissed her harder. And she slid her hand under his shirt, fingers stroking his bare flesh.
Then he pulled away, fast.
"Sorry, I . . ." He hesitated, his wallowing brain arguing against a body that was suddenly aflame.
Sam stood up very suddenly and walked away.
Taylor laughed gaily at his back. "Come see me when you get tired of mooning over the ice princess, Sam. — Michael Grant

No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers. — Robert Heller

Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide. — John Newton

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico? — Stephen Ambrose

God's purpose for money, differs completely from the world's purpose. — Sunday Adelaja

It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others. — Frederick Lenz

But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces - it's one of death. You invite a profound theme into your work when you choose cut flowers. You are talking about mortality and time moving forward. You are saying that everything, everything we see and experience and love happens uniquely and happens only once. When you take a picture of a flower in a glass you are, paradoxically, capturing evanescence. You are also showing the indifference of Nature. There is no mourning in a flower photograph, only a shrugging of the shoulders. — Whitney Otto

People don't just bump into each other and have sex. This isn't Cinemax. — Jerry Seinfeld

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short. — Jocelyn Gibb

Weep not today: why should this sadness be?
Learn in present fears
To o'ermaster those tears
That unhindered conquer thee. — Robert Bridges

That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to. — Scott Westerfeld

Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm - I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience - I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca. — Wilkie Collins