Quotes & Sayings About Getting Back Together After A Long Time

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me. — Rachel Maddow

A woman never thoroughly cares for her
lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have
snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she
begins to smile upon you. — Jerome K. Jerome

My memory of that day is like television itself, sharp and clear but unreliable. — Wally Lamb

By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other. — Rob Hopkins

I also believe that man's continued domestication (if you care to use that silly euphemism) of dogs is motivated by fear: fear that dogs, left to evolve on their own, would, in fact, develop thumbs and smaller tongues, and therefore would be superior to men, who are slow and cumbersome, standing erect as they do. This is why dogs must live under the constant supervision of people ... From what Denny has told me about the government and its inner workings, it is my belief that this despicable plan was hatched in a back room of none other than the White House, probably by an evil adviser to a president of questionable moral and intellectual fortitude, and probably with the correct assessment - unfortunately, made from a position of paranoia rather than of spiritual insight - that all dogs are progressively inclined regarding social issues. — Garth Stein

One of the first keys to success, he considered, was to recognize the difference between problems you could do something about and problems you could do nothing about. — Diane Setterfield

We want our delusions and will violently defend these when confronted. We want to believe that the job that is slowly choking us is good, because the effort it would take to change is too terrifying to contemplate. We never want to hear how badly we are being treated in a relationship because we are strong and how dare you suggest we don't know better. — Thomm Quackenbush

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool. — William Least Heat-Moon

I don't know that I ever planned on having children, but it's one thing to decide you aren't going to do something and another thing to be told that you can't do something. — Jay Gironimi

God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday. — Shannon L. Alder

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? — Franz Schubert

It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win. — Nate McMillan

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark. — Vincent Cassel