Funniest Jim Halpert Quotes & Sayings

You are her mother.
Why did you not warn her,
hold her like a rotting boat
and tell her that men will not love her
if she is covered in continents,
if her teeth are small colonies,
if her stomach is an island
if her thighs are borders?

What man wants to lie down
and watch the world burn
in his bedroom?

Your daughter 's face is a small riot,
her hands are a civil war,
a refugee camp behind each ear,
a body littered with ugly things.

But God,
doesn't she wear
the world well? — Warsan Shire

going up. It's gaining height." "Jake, I'm so sorry. This is the end. We are going to die here." She looked at him with huge black eyes, sad eyes. "No, I don't think we are. It really is going up." Other people had begun to murmur and whisper around them. As the rock grew nearer, it became clear that it was indeed increasing in altitude. There was no denying it. — Harry Dayle

Keep your ears open to
the promptings of your destiny, and don't worry too much if
you and your destiny do not agree about what you should have,
and when you should have it. Happiness is always a by-product.
It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know
it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded
from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop
worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from
your own brand of unhappiness. -- Robertson Davies — Robertson Davies

Let us choose to live our lives with the joy of loving. — Debasish Mridha

The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that." — Tim Foley

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation. — Emile Galle

1. God hears the cry of the oppressed. He even hears the cries of those whose oppression is a result of sin and rebellion. — Beth Moore

When you are a friend, you will have a friend. — Debasish Mridha

What fragmented individualism really meant was what happened to a black man who tried to make it in this society: in order to succeed, he had to become an imitation white man - dress white, talk white, think white, express the values of middle-class white culture (at least when he was in the presence of white men). Implied in all this was the hiding, the denial, of his selfhood, his negritude, his culture, as though they were somehow shameful. If he succeeded, he was an alienated marginal man - alienated from the strength of his culture and from fellow black men, and never able, of course, to become that imitation white man because he bore the pigment that made the white man view him as intrinsically other. — John Howard Griffin

It wasn't fair and part of him knew it wasn't fair, but never in his life had he felt so helpless, so lost, and so consequently mean. He — Stephen King

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try. — Tori Amos

For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan. — John Shadegg

We make a baby, Sylvie, we do it making love. Not fucking on the kitchen floor. — Kristen Ashley

Lord bless our week. The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go beyond what we think. — Paulo Coelho

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, I already have, mister. — Elizabeth Gilbert