Douglas Costa Quotes & Sayings

His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else. — Shannon Hale

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more. — Jeff Foxworthy

Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude. — Wallace D. Wattles

Peace of mind is power of being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel. — Francois Fenelon

A model shoot was going on at half-court. Lots of those umbrella lights and tall, bony women-cum-children and tripods and people huffing and fluffing about. Myron waited for someone to mistake him for a model. And waited. — Harlan Coben

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men;
But at our parting, we will be, as when
We innocently met. — Ben Jonson

No, no, Kit, don't cry!' begged Freddy, putting his arm round her. 'Can't bear you not to be happy! I won't say another word. Never thought there was any hope for me. Just wanted to tell you. — Georgette Heyer

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'. — Marc Maron