Quotes & Sayings About Designated Drivers

Yes, these are the thoughts that occupy my brain on a daily basis: How many steps to take. How many hairbrush strokes. Making sure I line up my proofreading pens just so. Making sure my make-up is just so. Sitting in my fucking desk chair just so. It's exhausting living a "just so" life. And I don't want to do it, but the idea of not counting, not arranging, not tic-ing sends my heart reeling with anxiety. — S. Walden

Some people say ... that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We're not very good at it though, are we? — Jane Goodall

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them. — Zoe Wanamaker

The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct. — Carl Jung

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players. — Bruce Sutter

Peace and satisfaction are the two most expensive things in life. You can never buy them, you can only generate them for yourself, and those around you. — Mehek Bassi

Their eyes met, and that spark of something hot and sharp ripped through her again. Awareness. It took a moment to realize, but that was it. She was utterly aware of him. Of the breadth of his shoulders, the deep even way he breathed, the force of his gaze. Bloody hell, but she we beset by the craving to touch him, testing the strength in those shoulders. — Kristen Callihan

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. — Mahatma Gandhi

walked erect out of my sleep — Lucille Clifton

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell. — Howard Finster

There is no horizontal stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls. — James A. Garfield

Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment. — J.R. Rim

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience. — Elbert Hubbard

The Greeks say it's a sin against the gods to love something beyond all reason. And do you remember that they say when someone is loved so, the gods become jealous, and strike the object down in the very fullness of its flower? — Colleen McCullough

He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything. — Cassandra Clare