Desgraciado Quotes & Sayings

Younger love, it seemed, was mainly about the idea of potential
the illusion that magical transformations were bound to occur when the person you think you love has a miraculous impromptu awakening after some metaphorical lightning bolt, made out of your wishes and projections, suddenly brings them to their senses. On the other hand, older love is all about what you are hoping is still possible, after you have mourned the death of the idea of yourself as manufacturer of miracles. Older love starts with the unpleasant truth that expecting a person to change for the better spontaneously, simply because you wish it, makes as much sense as counting on the lottery for next month's rent. — Merrill Markoe

I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food. — Raymond Kelly

My body is but a vessel for my most potent treasure ... my mind. — Dan Brown

Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God's business because they all have God whether they use the word God or not. Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's business. Leave it to God. — Frederick Buechner

A living dog's better than a dead lion. — Elizabeth Bowen

I left home when I turned 17 and ran away to New York. I did a lot of moving. I was based in New York and country-hopping, so I was always 'the new girl'. — Sarah Roemer

Parents, you know, can be terrible. — Diana Vreeland

Then the fight went out of control. It quivered their arms and legs and wrenched their faces into shapes of hatred, it urged them harder and deeper into each other's weakest points, showing them cunning ways around each other's strongholds and quick chances to switch tactics, feint, and strike again. In the space of a gasp for breath it sent their memories racing back over the years for old weapons to rip the scabs off old wounds; it went on and on. — Richard Yates

You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody — Les Giblin

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. — Mark Twain

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind, and drink the
universe in a glass of rain. — Ihab Hassan