Jardins Zen Quotes & Sayings

She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love. — Nora Roberts

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live. — Vance Havner

I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body's weight upon my breast;
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again undone, possessed.
Think not for this, however, the poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one. — Ashwin Sanghi

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember. — Mark Twain

The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded - and retained. — John Medina

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. — Robert Breault

There's nothing in the world like live entertainment. With TV, you have to wait for your results; with live entertainment, people let you know right then and there. That relationship is established in 30 seconds. The first 30 seconds, they'll let you know whether they like you or not. — Tracy Morgan

She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls. — Sara Shepard

Don't tell me! You're just rubbing it in! It serves me right, though: it was vanity that kept me from coming, egoistic vanity and base despotism, which I haven't been able to get rid of all my life, though all my life I've been trying to break myself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I know [my breasts] have opened doors for me, let's be real, — Sofia Vergara

In his frenzied thoughts, he couldn't help thinking of Cinder at the ball. How happy he'd been to see her descending the stairs into the ball room. How innocently amused he'd been at her rain-drenched hair and wrinkled dress, thinking it was a fitting look for the city's most renowned mechanic. He'd thought she must be immune to society's whims of fashion and decorum. So comfortable in her own skin that she could come to a royal ball as the emperor's own guest with messy hair and oil stains on her gloves and keep her head high as she did so. — Marissa Meyer

Like Dewey, I was lucky. I got to leave on my own terms. Find your place. Be happy with what you have. Treat everyone well. Live a good life. It isn't about material things; it's about love. And you can never anticipate love. — Vicki Myron

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. — Arthur Laffer