Fjand Quotes & Sayings

A dream that returns so often is like to be a messenger, come to warn you of the future or to remind you of things untimely forgotten. — Peter S. Beagle

He always had the sense that they were on borrowed time. — Nicholas Sparks

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it. — Elizabeth Gaskell

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me. — Mike Schmidt

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown. — James Stewart

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good. — John Avery

Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system. — Dave Barry

Translating is writing. — Marguerite Yourcenar

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics. — Edwin Moses

Destiny is not a mystery. For better or worse, your destiny is the result of your daily decisions and defining decisions. — Mark Batterson

I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined. — Carolyn Ives Gilman

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism. — Assata Shakur

They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun ...
They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet. — Kurt Vonnegut

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works. — Linford Christie

I don't know why Nightingale was so surprised - I barely knew four and a half spells and you couldn't have got me to give it up, and that's despite close brushes with death by vampire, hanging, malignant spirit, riot, tigerman, and the ever-present risk of overdoing the magic and getting a brain aneurysm. — Ben Aaronovitch