Lendemain In English Quotes & Sayings

When you're home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don't get anything done. — Seth Numrich

Man may pat me on the back in celebration of my actions, but God's eyes are piercing into the hidden place of my motivations. He cannot be fooled. — Anna Blanc

Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fated for destruction were enough to take the joy out of things, we'd slaughter children fresh from the womb. But we don't. We wrap them in warm cloth and we sing to them and feed them milk as if it might all go on forever. — Daniel Abraham

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies. — Frank O'Hara

A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105 — Melody Beattie

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker. — Allen West

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. — Thomas Carlyle

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness. — Albert Camus

He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie's door.
"Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon,"
he said with admirable humbleness when Timmie cracked it open. Only I could pick up the
slight edge to his voice as he went on. "I can only say that it was caused by my natural
affront to the notion of her as my sister. Since I'll be shagging her tonight, you can
imagine how I'd be distressed at the thought of rogering my sibling."
"You schmuck!" I burst as Timmie's jaw dropped. "The only thing you'll be shagging
tonight is yourself!"
"You wanted sincerity," he countered. "Well, luv, I was sincere. — Jeaniene Frost

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! — Edward Abbey

Losing your love hurts more than playing with fire. — Leydi Morfa

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts. — Klaus Kinski