Duet Stories Quotes & Sayings

A thief might steal from anyone.
Why he's stealing from you is what you need to understand. — Brownell Landrum

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon. — Mitt Romney

There is no shadow without the sun.
No suffering without divinity.
No fear without love.
No despair without desire.
No hopelessness without faith. — Brownell Landrum

It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle. — Dave Ramsey

She was like quicksand-the more I struggled to get out, the faster I sank. So I'd decided to give up and embrace the sink down. — Kelley R. Martin

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. — Wislawa Szymborska

It's only when someone really shows their vulnerability to another, and is accepted, flaws and all, can he or she really feel loved. — Brownell Landrum

Faith is like the sun. Some people are closer to the source of that love and light, and can bask in the warmth, while others are further away. Some look toward the light, while others face the opposite direction. — Brownell Landrum

Pearls mean tears. — Doris Lessing

Relationships are tenuous, like a fragile seedling. You could ruin its chances at growing and thriving by carelessly trampling it or shrouding it in a canopy of darkness. And also like a seedling, if you give it light and love and time for the roots to grow deeply, it'll flourish into a majestic redwood. — Brownell Landrum

They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person. — Brownell Landrum

What can be used to heal, can also be used to hurt. — Brownell Landrum

It is possible to adore those newly come into your world, to envision, no matter how late in the day, a happily entwined future with those who have not been part of your past. — Mohsin Hamid

Life is a continuum; neither black nor white, but a series of shades from light to dark. When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back. — Brownell Landrum

Sometimes giving someone space is the most selfless thing you can do. — Brownell Landrum

Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful. — Brownell Landrum

Why are you smiling?" she asked.
I kissed the inside of her wrists and answered what I felt at that moment was the absolute truth. "Because everything is perfect."
This is what I know that I am:
A fool. — Karin Slaughter

It's a difficult thing to be a man. To try to be noble and honorable in a world of conflict and strife. To distinguish selfish desire from sincere concern. To know when to fight and when to forfeit. — Brownell Landrum

In sexual relations, a connection between solar plexus chakras indicates shared power in the relationship. — Brownell Landrum

Your soul is your connection to the Divine. Sacred sex is an activity of joining souls in holy, celestial creation, expressing your appreciation for the gift of life, of sharing your body's vitality with another. — Brownell Landrum

Love is both the question and the answer. — Brownell Landrum

You have to be very careful when involving yourself with someone else's karma. It can quickly become your karma too. — Brownell Landrum

I'd always felt like it was only weak people who turned to God, but at that moment I realized maybe I was wrong: perhaps it was the other way around. Only those who were strong enough to admit their own, human limitations would know when to seek help and guidance. — Brownell Landrum

Greed, corruption, violence, sin, deception all come from a lack of understanding that we're all connected. — Brownell Landrum

Loving someone who can't love themselves is like pouring water into a bowl with a hole in the bottom. It can never stay filled. — Brownell Landrum

I was helplessly captured; and hopelessly enraptured. — Brownell Landrum

Until someone recognizes his or her Reason Why, the problem will recur, or another will sprout up in its place. — Brownell Landrum

Tragedies can contain some of life's greatest rewards and valuable lessons. Struggle makes you stronger. Pain makes you alert. Clouds bring forth the rain. As a wise man once said, 'You seek problems because you need their gifts.' Why would you rob someone of these benefits? — Brownell Landrum

The best way to get over one man is to go down on another. — Chloe Thurlow

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue. — Anne Rice

One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it's the opposite. — Brownell Landrum

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear. — Brownell Landrum

which I hoped to make. None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley