Girdin Quotes & Sayings

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

If life gives you lemons, find the bastard responsible and pelt him/her with the lemons until they stop giving them to you...or eat 'em. Whichever you prefer. — Grea Alexander

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine. — Charles Barkley

He was thinking about men like his Uncle Ted, a Cornishman to his bones, who lived and would die in St. Mawes, part of the fabric of the place, remembered as long as there were locals, beaming out of fading photographs of the Life Boat on pub walls. When Ted died - and Strike hoped it would be twenty, thirty years hence - they would mourn him as the unknown Barrovian Grammar boy was being mourned: with drink, with tears, but in celebration that he had been given to them. What had dark, hulking Brockbank, child rapist, and fox-haired Laing, wife-torturer, left behind in the towns of their birth? Shudders of relief that they had gone, fear that they had returned, a trail of broken people and bad memories. — Robert Galbraith

A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I want to die as a slave to principles, not to men. — Emiliano Zapata

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart. — Ann Curry

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot. — Burt Reynolds

Why did people think military relationships were romantic? If anything, they were more work than most relationships. — Tracey Cramer-Kelly

If we're doing we're living and if we're living we're winning, right? — Emma Hooper

Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students — Richard L. Allington

You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me. The — Frank Herbert

The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death. — Ahmadou Kourouma

Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it may have ordained that the fall of the wicked shall be the rise of the good.
To J. Correa de Serra, Monticello, Apr. 19, 1814 — Thomas Jefferson

One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist. — Audra McDonald