Isaias Live Updates Quotes & Sayings

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do. — Douglas Coupland

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure. — Charles Caleb Colton

Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes. — Randy Pausch

The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another. — Stanislaw Lem

But it's not healthy!" replied the Hag. "A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?"
"You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever."
"Yeah," sighed the Maid, "but I bet a tenner I can make you cry in half a minute. — Kate Griffin

People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective. — Robert Jordan

How could such heat remain when we were not even touching? — Alison Goodman

Havna ye heard how the ancient Greeks associated sparrows with Aphrodite, the goddess of love?"...
"Och, 'tis no story. 'Tis the truth I give: When sparrows mated, it was due to their abandoned nature." His head inclined so he could whisper a kiss to her neck, sending shivers from her shoulders to the soles of her feet. "Even Chaucer and Shakespeare wrote about the sparrow's lustful conduct. — Vonnie Davis

147It's wrong for him. Where do people
who are wrong for each other meet
but in the movies or on trains.
Best to meet a man who's moving.
Passing through. Let him ruin
your weekend but not your life.
That's what weekends are for. — D. A. Powell

And faith, which is but hope grown wise, and love And patience, which at last shall overcome." Lowell. — Jeanie Lang

My thoughts are crabbed and sallow,
My tears like vinegar,
Or the bitter blinking yellow
Of an acetic star.
Tonight the caustic wind, love,
Gossips late and soon,
And I wear the wry-faced pucker of
The sour lemon moon.
While like an early summer plum,
Puny, green, and tart,
Droops upon its wizened stem
My lean, unripened heart. — Sylvia Plath

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. — Terri Windling

Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition. — Edie Adams

The one consistent thing I have found is that there really is no normal when it comes to women. — P.C. Cast

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action. — Martin Luther King Jr.