Desmaiou Quotes & Sayings

I'm always trepidatious and excited about what I do. I wouldn't choose to do something, unless I am really excited about it. — Hugo Weaving

I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated. — Jessica Sorensen

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it. — Grant Hill

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed. — Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions. — Chelsea Clinton

This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves. — Ayn Rand

What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive. — Barbara Kingsolver

Love is like a match to a wick. It takes that right combination to strike a flame. But once the flame is there, it can either give warmth, die out or burn your world to ashes. Even kill you. It's how you sustain the flame, feed it, and moderate the amount of energy in balance. — Anthony Liccione

But correspondents are a wily bunch. Having stashed their typewriters, crossed the border, changed their clothes, and counted to ten, they began slipping back into the country one by one. So in 1928, the Foreign Press Office was opened anew on the top floor of a six-story walk-up conveniently located halfway between the Kremlin and the offices of the secret police - a spot that just happened to be across the street from the Metropol. Thus, — Amor Towles

But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. — George Orwell

God's love helps us to reach the unreachable, He's a great God. — Euginia Herlihy

I pulled myself together and retreated to the coffee shop's bathroom to refresh. Sol's eyes caressed my body as I walked away, the soft stroke of a feather up and down my skin, and the attention didn't make me feel uncomfortable in the least. I smiled as I suddenly realized I'd subconsciously put an extra roll in my hips. Truthfully, it pleased me to think he might be as attracted to me as I was to him. — E.R. Pierce