Expected Token Quotes & Sayings

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. — Brassai

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength. — Michel De Montaigne

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. — Raymond Chandler

You have a wise prince, my queen," Lutian said from beside them. "I would give him my fool's scepter, except that I no longer have one, since I left it at home so that no one would know I was a fool." He pulled a piece of lint from his tunic and held it out to Christian. "Take this as a token of my esteem."
She half expected Christian to scoff and mock Lutian, as most people did. Instead, he took the lint, thanked him for it, then put it on his shoulder as if it were some kind of prize.
-Lutian & Christian — Kinley MacGregor

Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them. — John Steinbeck

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected. — Dick Francis

Heaven is love, then hell is love, too. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I went to a psychiatrist (NBC insisted we all go) and told her I had been through traumatic experiences before and understood that the kidnapping would leave "fingerprints" on me for a while. The key was knowing what to expect. If you get blind drunk, you know you're going to wake up with a hangover. By the same token, I expected post-traumatic stress symptoms - anger, irritability, a sense of isolation - and I experienced those feelings, off and on, for several months. It's like having the monkey on your back again, and being self-aware helps shake him off. — Richard Engel

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do. — Jeremy Lin

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. — Carroll O'Connor

He was smiling - a kind of honest, humbled, sweet smile. "Maybe I'm getting better at this?" he asked. "Better at wooing you in the manner in which you should be wooed? — Chloe Neill

Baby Kochamma grudged them their moments of high happiness when a dragonfly they'd caught lifted a small stone off their palms with its legs, or when they had permission to bathe the pigs, or they found an egg hot form a hen. But most of all, she grudged them the comfort they drew from each other. She expected from them some token unhappiness. At the very least. — Arundhati Roy

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy. — Eartha Kitt

The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory. — Ambrose Burnside

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science. — Ivar Giaever

Give me your wrists, Alayna. I sense your impatience, and I know exactly where you intend for those hands to go. — Scarlet Wolfe

I tried to tell her how if you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make a future. — Robert Penn Warren

If one is not a meditator, howsoever good one is it is all useless. — Osho