Duckies Bar Quotes & Sayings

That night they made love, the kind of love-making that is another country, a country of its own, not yours or mine. — Nadine Gordimer

Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed. — Ludwig Von Mises

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses. — Ian Gardner

Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it
and then reap the fruits of our labors. — Oprah Winfrey

Every gift comes with a price." I frowned, and he grinned. "A kiss."
"Absolutely not!" But my blood raced, and I had to clench my hands in the grass to keep from touching him. "Don't you think it puts me at a disadvantage to not be able to see all this?"
"I'm one of the High Fae - we don't give anything without gaining something from it."
To my own surprise, I said, "Fine."
He blinked, probably expecting me to have fought a little harder. I hid my smile and sat up so that I faced him, our knees touching as we knelt in the grass.
"What about your part of the bargain?"
"What?"
He leaned closer, his smile turning wicked. "What about my kiss?"
I grabbed his fingers. "Here," I said, and slammed my mouth against the back of his hand. "There's your kiss. — Sarah J. Maas

Yes, the world was very strange. But you had to walk through. That was the trick. You had to keep walking through, always, with your chin held high, the way she had passed through the tunnels of the underworld, with only the dim light of the lumpen to guide her. That was the other trick, the other truth: Light would come to you from unexpected places. — Lauren Oliver

When I first thought about writing this book, I conceived of it as a book about moods, and an illness of moods, in the context of an individual life. As I have written it, however, it has somehow turned out to be very much a book about love as well: love as sustainer, as renewer, and as protector. After each seeming death within my mind or heart, love has returned to recreate hope and restore life. It has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. It has, inexplicably and savingly, provided not only cloak but lantern for the darker seasons and grimmer weather. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Everyday was another day spent waiting. Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth. — Paulo Coelho

With strength you need two stones to kill two birds; with faith you only need one. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special. — Merrill Markoe

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world. — Frank Lampard

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past. — Mohsin Hamid

The certainty of incoherence in reading, the inevitable crumbling of the soundest constructions, is the deep truth of books. Since appearance constitutes a limit, what truly exists is a dissolution into common opacity rather than a development of lucid thinking. The apparent unchangingness of books is deceptive: each book is also the sum of the misunderstandings it occasions. — Georges Bataille