Dirvonis Law Quotes & Sayings

I thought about him trying not to laugh at the 'Molahonkey Song' on a night when the snow drifted gold past the window. I thought about the warm skin and soft hair and hands of someone living, someone who was far cleverer and funnier than I would ever be and who still couldn't see a better future than to obliterate himself. And finally, my head pressed into the pillow, I cried, because my life suddenly seemed so much darker and more complicated than I could ever have imagined, and I wished I could go back, back to when my biggest worry was whether Frank and I had ordered in enough Chelsea buns. — Jojo Moyes

Unauthorized making of babies was strictly forbidden by Freakhouse staff, but that didn't stop everyone. — Ashley Newell

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again. — Saint Francis De Sales

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

She started to explain her project to him again but the words stopped in her throat. 'You don't have to understand it,' she said. 'It's mine. — Emily St. John Mandel

I found myself navigating exaggerated compliments, half-meant invitations, and gargantuan hospitality. One particular exchange that the priest had with a flower merchant summed it up for me. After a lengthy negotiation over price, the flower seller declared: "Of course, I would like you to have them for free." Nimbler at this than I would ever have been, the priest had an equally insincere compliment ready in reply: "You know, I only came here for the pleasure of seeing you. — Gerard Russell

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business. — Nikki Haley

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are. — Michel De Montaigne

But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us. — Harvey Korman

Flowed through me. He didn't pull away. It seemed as though he was straining forward, his upper body already over the gearshift — Jennifer L. Armentrout