Lamedarootsuline Quotes & Sayings

You're always a kid around your parents ... Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance. — Sarah Dessen

I like to think I'm not stupid often, tonight proves that when I am, I do it in a big way. — Lisa Renee Jones

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look
vertically upwards — Oche Otorkpa

Gregory is a good boy, though all the Latin he has learned, all the sonorous periods of the great authors, have rolled through his head and out again, like stones. Still, you think of Thomas More's boy: offspring of a scholar all Europe admired, and poor young John can barely stumble through his Pater Noster. Gregory is a fine archer, a fine horseman, a shining star in the tilt yard, and his manners cannot be faulted. He speaks reverently to his superiors, not scuffling his feet or standing on one leg, and he is mild and polite with those below him. He knows how to bow to foreign diplomats in the manner of their own countries, sits at table without fidgeting or feeding spaniels, can neatly carve and joint any fowl if requested to serve his elders. He doesn't slouch around with his jacket off one shoulder, or look in windows to admire himself, or stare around in church, or interrupt old men, or finish their stories for them. If anyone sneezes, he says, 'Christ help you! — Hilary Mantel

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person. — Warren G. Bennis

God's been fixing broken people ever since sin came into the world. Give Him time. He's not done. God promises He will work for the good in all things. What happened to you isn't beyond His ability to recover. — Dee Henderson

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. — Billie Holiday

You have made your magic now — Arthur Miller

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. — Wynton Marsalis

I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better. — Patti LaBelle

And he'd railed at her, his voice booming so loud the bed had seem to shake. "You canna do this - take my goddamned heart and then leave me! You think I will no' follow?"
She knew he was constantly there, was aware of his movement and comprehended his words, but she couldn't seem to open her heavy eyelids or speak.
At night, he would wrap his body around hers, keeping her warm, whispering against her hair, "You enjoy being contrary. Then prove them all wrong and get better." He'd clutched her hip, then balled his fist there. — Kresley Cole

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius. — T. S. Eliot

I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back ... maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt than sharing your life with other actual human beings. — Mark Haddon

But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations. — Patricia Richardson