De Carlton Quotes & Sayings

A good compromise leaves everyone angry. — Christopher Paolini

There's a phenomenon I call the Helpless Traveler. If you're traveling with someone who's confident, organized, and decisive you become the Helpless Traveler: "Are we there yet?" "My bags are too heavy." "My feet are getting blisters." "This isn't what I ordered." We've all been that person. But if the person you're traveling with is helpless, then you become the one able to decipher train schedules, spend five hours walking on marble museum floors without complaint, order fearlessly from foreign menus, and haggle with crooked cabdrivers. Every person has it in him to be either the Competent Traveler or the Helpless Traveler. Because Joe is so clearheaded and sharp, I've been able to go through life as the Helpless Traveler. Which, now that I think about it, might not be such a good thing. It's a question for Joe. His — Maria Semple

Another reason why we are often most happy in our troubles, is this - then we have the closest dealings with God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Was barely noticed, but I wasn't bothered by the lack of recognition. — Rebecca Donovan

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head. — Pat Metheny

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood. — Renee Zellweger

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. — Stendhal

O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best ... — John Burroughs

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone. — Hafez

wow this was a good book — Patricia Waddell

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me. — Marilyn Manson

An ugly woman that honors you is better than a beautiful woman that dishonors you". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy. — Blake Mycoskie

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness — Neal Stephenson

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide? — Saint Augustine