Loversdiscourse Quotes & Sayings

All I could remember was her smile. Unable to picture the loved face, however strenuously I tried to make myself remember it, I was for ever irritated to find that my memory had retained exact replicas of the striking and futile faces of the roundabout man and the barley-sugar woman, just as the bereaved, who each night search their dreams in vain for the lost beloved, will find their sleep is peopled by all manner of exasperating and unbearable intruders, whom they have always found, even in the waking world, more than dislikable. Faced with the impossibility of seeing clearly the object of their grief, they come close to accusing themselves of not grieving, just as I was tempted to believe that my inability to remember the features of Gilberte's face meant that I had forgotten her and had stopped loving her. — Marcel Proust

Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more. — Magnus Scheving

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes. — John Ray

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible. — Curtis Armstrong

in the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning). — Salim Ismail

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do. — Zubin Mehta

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too. — Miranda July

The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things. — Marcel Proust

People have this vision of me as a conservative person, but I'm actually quite adventurous. — Tsai Ing-wen

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

And also that God's will has a lot more to do with inviting us to become more than we previously have been than about getting us to one very specific destination. God's will, should we choose to engage in it, will generally feel like surgery, rooting out all the darkness and fear we've come to live with. — Shauna Niequist

A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV. — Conan O'Brien

Everything is always on the table. I think it's one of the things that's made 'Arrow' special. But we also all collectively feel like 'The Flash' needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it's gotten its launch from 'Arrow.' — Marc Guggenheim

Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 87 — Deborah E. Lipstadt