Demitasse Quotes & Sayings

Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return. — John Wooden

Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one of the few persons who could pull that kind of thing off and leave the hostess saying how charming he was.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward — Carl Bernstein

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't. — Timothy Olyphant

For with love there is no middle course: it destroys, or else it saves. All human destiny is contained in that dilemma, the choice between destruction and salvation, which is nowhere more implacably posed than in love. Love is life, or it is death. It is the cradle, but also the coffin. One and the same impulse moves the human heart to say yes or no. Of all things God has created it is the human heart that sheds the brightest light and, alas, the blackest despair. — Victor Hugo

I am paddling laps in a demitasse of home-brewed ennui — Michael Perry

There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed. — Ann Rinaldi

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. — George Carlin