Florentinas Ristorante Quotes & Sayings

If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court. — Daphne Oz

It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever. — Sidney Crosby

It's still woman's work whether it's done in a great hall or in the kitchen," I said bitterly. "I know it well enough. It's earning no money for yourself and everything for your husband and master. It's obeying him as quickly and as well as if you were a groom of the servery. It's having to tolerate anything he chooses to do, and smile as he does it. I've served Queen Katherine in these last few years. I've seen how life has been for her. I wouldn't be a princess, not even for a princess's dowry. I wouldn't even be a queen. I have seen her shamed and humiliated and insulted, and all she could do was kneel on her prie dieu, pray for a little help, and get to her feet and smile at the woman who was triumphing over her. — Philippa Gregory

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works. — Gary Reilly

Wisdom is a mother;
proverbs are her offspring. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You are not going to loot a candy shop in the middle of a war! — Rick Riordan

Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here. — N.D. Wilson

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. — Baron De Montesquieu

It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing. — Joost Meerloo

Kingsley got up, and as he did so, he flashed me the goods. Whether he meant to or not, I don't know ... but holy sweet Jesus. Did I really just see that? My God, how did he walk around with that thing? Kingsley, defense attorney, werewolf - and now, apparently, pervert - sat next to me and gave no indication that he had just given me the mother of all peep shows. "I'm going to let you in on a little secret," he said, and knocked back the rest of his wine like it was booze-flavored Kool-Aide. "It's not a secret," I said. "And it ain't little." "Excuse me?" "Never mind." But I caught the smallest of shit-eating grins on his face. "Go on," I said, shaking my head. "And this time try to keep the robe closed. — J.R. Rain

She asked if I wanted to spoon with her, and I told her I didn't want to stir things up. — Jarod Kintz

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. — Fred Allen

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel

Where there is lack, God's abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It's coming. — Marianne Williamson

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. — Neil Gaiman