Malpighiales Quotes & Sayings

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough. — Albert Einstein

None of us marry perfection; we marry potential. — Robert D. Hales

There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren. — Eraldo Banovac

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. — Robert M. Pirsig

He stroked her pale cheek with his thumb, willing her to open those dark gypsy eyes he loved so much. He needed her impish gaze, her light laughter and intoxicating touch. He needed everything about her. She'd made him feel more alive than when he was human. Needing her kiss as much as he needed blood to survive, he pressed his lips to hers. "I beg of you, wake. Please, my precious Angel," he prayed as he held her in his arms. "Wake so I can tell you how sorry I am, and how much I love you. God, I love you." He couldn't say the words enough. "I love you. I love you." He repeated the litany over and over again until exhaustion overcame him and he fell asleep, still clinging to her with a vow never to let her go again. — Brooklyn Ann

She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world. — Ernest Cline

Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality. — Menna Anwar

When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever — Tobias Wolff

It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect and sometimes bad things just happened. — Kaya McLaren

How big can we get before we get bad? — Jay Chiat

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique. — Katherine Dunn

If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about. — Elizabeth Bard