Encoding Smart Quotes & Sayings

You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as a symptom of a greater obsession that can only be extinguished by your merciful hand ... — Philip The Apostle

My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but where we won't need guns or prey but we will just walk together arm in arm in this good world and be by ourselves always together forever and a day. — James Purdy

Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way! — Mark Batterson

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. — Alan W. Watts

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer. — Mike Greenberg

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered. — Mason Cooley

A wave would arrive, all out of breath, but, as it had nothing to report, it would disperse in apologetic salaams. — Vladimir Nabokov

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men. — Samuel Rogers

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply. — Judith Plaskow

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors. — Howard E. Koch

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up. — Sandra Brown