Dekempers Quotes & Sayings

Now he looked at couples - in restaurants, on the street, at parties - and wondered: Why are you together? What did you identify as essential to you? What's missing in you that you want someone else to provide? — Hanya Yanagihara

He put his hand on my thigh. No worries, I got you now babe. — Cindi Madsen

Stop the nurse like the monkey. — Jeff Lindsay

Forget the "why" and focus on the "is — John Riley

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. — Thomas A Kempis

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It's a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you. — Jillian Michaels

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

They seek for themselves private retiring places, as country villages, the sea-shore, mountains; yea thou thyself art wont to long much after such places. But all this thou must know proceeds from simplicity in the highest degree. At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses. A man cannot any whither retire better than to his own soul; he especially who is beforehand provided of such things within, which whensoever he doth withdraw himself to look in, may presently afford unto him perfect ease and tranquillity. — Marcus Aurelius

In America, small business is a big deal. — Bob Beauprez

I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him. — Caitlyn Jenner

The ocean to my right was maroon, the sky above it silver. There were sand trails through the thick purple ice plant that grew along the roadside ... but now the sky is the color of peaches ...
It was a ball of bright saffron sinking into the sea, turning the water purple, the sky orange and green. — Andre Dubus III

Destiny cuts
the cake of love,
Three slices to some,
To others, a crumb. — Stefano Benni

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text. — Raymond Pettibon