Lessor Lessee Quotes & Sayings

It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries. — Flannery O'Connor

These are secrets hidden from those who escape the Himalaya when it is at its bleakest: the mountains do not reveal themselves to people who come here merely to escape the heat of the plains. Through the summer they veil themselves in a haze. The peaks emerge for those devoted to them through the coldest of winters, the wettest of monsoons. The mountains, Diwan Sahib said in an uncharacteristic rush of sentimentality fueled by a few drinks at his fireplace, believe that love must be tested by adversity. — Anuradha Roy

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every tub sits on its bottom. — Zora Neale Hurston

When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler.
What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this: Don't use me as your model. I'm the last person you should look up to. — Jodi Picoult

Our mother had taught us that when the moon was white, reappearing after its absence, it was showing us that what had been hidden could easily become whole again. — Alice Hoffman

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty. — Kurt Vonnegut

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up. — Matthew Perry

People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer. — Ed Begley Jr.