Enjoys A Lakeside Quotes & Sayings

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties? — Maria Edgeworth

Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break ... I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun. — Edward Abbey

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it. — Tom Petty

I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and saying "Ah!" in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out.
Then he would lean back in his chair and match the tips of his fingers together in a little steeple and tell me why I couldn't sleep and why I couldn't read and why I couldn't eat and why everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.
And then, I thought, he would help me, step by step, to be myself again. — Sylvia Plath

But life without love was like a rat that had been dead for a few days. You could eat it, but it wasn't as delicious. — C. Gockel

Everyone knows that if you buy chocolate with spare change, then the calories don't count. — Janet Evanovich

But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory. — Ken Kesey

Police are inevitably corrupted ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available. — Frank Herbert

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. — Les Brown

In Europe and Japan, bourgeois life lingers on. In Britain and America it has become the stuff of theme parks. The middle class is a luxury capitalism can no longer afford. — John N. Gray