Hid His Strop Quotes & Sayings

So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar. — Zhuangzi

It happened a long time ago," she said quietly. Wells nodded. The words I know formed in his brain but got lost somewhere on the way to his mouth. His eyes began to prickle and he turned away quickly. Eight billion. That's how many people had died during the Cataclysm. It'd always seemed as abstract as any huge figure, like the age of Earth, or the number of stars in the galaxy. Yet now, he'd give anything to know that the people who'd eaten dinner together in this kitchen, with those plates, had somehow made it off the burning planet. "Wells, — Kass Morgan

I never saw any good that came of telling truth. — John Dryden

Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team? — Ian St. John

Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous. — Noam Chomsky

I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee. — Alberto Gonzales

My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about. — Gary Paulsen

The dead can read tears. — Louis De Bernieres

You must not believe in charity." I absolutely do, and support charities all the time. I just discern the differences between true charity, which is giving of one's own free will, "from the heart", and forced "charity" which isn't really charity at all, for the very reason that it's forced. — Kira Saoirse

I could report the rest of the conversation, but it's just more of the same, two people whose love became toxic, lobbing regret grenades at each other. — Jonathan Tropper

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand. — Wilkie Collins

She was supportive, didn't pry or expect anything from me, and sensed when I needed my space. If she were a guy, I'd probably date her. Or, if I were a lesbian. And if she were a lesbian. I guess we'd both have to be lesbians for that to work. Regardless, she made a pretty great friend. — Temple West

Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind. — Harold Ballard

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them — Paulo Coelho