Desapego In English Quotes & Sayings

You're all I can think about, Harlow. Where I'm headed is new to me, but I damn well want to go there as long as that's where you'll be. You're worried about getting hurt, but I don't think you understand yet that you're holding all the damn cards, sweet girl. All the damn cards. — Abbi Glines

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation. — Jane Austen

Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery. — Mason Cooley

But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth. — Leslie Cockburn

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital. — Mabel Osgood Wright

It was difficult to not compare the two men as they stood together. Mr. Beaufort was certainly dashing, with his stylish golden hair and the flair of his dress. But seeing him next to Philip, his appeal faded greatly in my mind. For it was obvious, comparing them side by side, that Mr. Beaufort was like a set of paste jewels - flashy on the outside but really an imposter, with nothing of great value within. Philip, on the other hand, shone like a real gem - without even trying. His clothes were just as well-made as Mr. Beaufort's, but he wore them with a natural, athletic grace, and he didn't employ any extreme fashions to create an impression. He was purely elegant, naturally, without thought or planning, and upon looking at them, I found that I would infinitely prefer the real gem to the imposter. — Julianne Donaldson

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper. — Maria Sharapova

Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves.
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor - spending and being spent - to enrich their fellowmen, giving time, trouble, care and concern to do good to others - and not just their own friends - in whatever way there seems need. — J.I. Packer

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art. — Eddi Reader

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. — Scott Westerfeld

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit. — Ruth Handler

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression. — Frederick Lenz

When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with. — Elizabeth Taylor

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry. — Magnus Carlsen