Guillotina Manual Quotes & Sayings

As I do next to all women who glow with this kind of femininity, I feel like an impostor, a poor imitation of my gender. To her, womanhood comes naturally, like a yawn or a sneeze, just as effortless. To me, womanhood is something I need to observe and study, learn and imitate, and still can never fully comprehend. — Elif Shafak

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. — Robert Bresson

Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface of the ocean which our ship followed unswervingly until the sun dipped below the edge of the horizon, and the pathway ran ahead of us faster than we could steam and slipped over the edge of the skyline - as if the sun had been a golden ball and had wound up its thread of gold too quickly for us to follow. — Lawrence Beesley

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure ... — Christopher Hitchens

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character ... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. — Jodi Picoult

Remember, guns don't kill people - unless you practice real hard. — Bill Maher

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother. — John Steinbeck

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you set a clear standard for yourself; for how you wish to be treated - people take note. — Bryant McGill

The Law of Attraction is the Law of Love. — Rhonda Byrne

My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.' — Shari Arison

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone. — Bob Geldof

I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect. — Louise Andrews Kent

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become. — Frank Pittman

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason. — W. H. Auden