Mentvine Quotes & Sayings

I was probably Cameron's ideal that he'd dreamt up from within his own psyche. A living breathing fantasy. As though Cameron had imagined his perfect woman and I'd conveniently turned up. Only he'd given me to his best friend. — Vanessa Fewings

The day you find out the purpose of your existence, is the day you get to know the value of your being. — Mehek Bassi

Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest. — Pearl Zhu

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again. — Nikita Khrushchev

So the days pass and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotised, as a child by a silver globe, by life; and whether this is living. It's very quick, bright, exciting. But superficial perhaps. I should like to take the globe in my hands and feel it quietly, round, smooth, heavy, and so hold it, day after day. I will read Proust I think. I will go backwards and forwards. — Virginia Woolf

I'm gonna kiss you now,' he murmured, and she mmmd and tightened her fingers in his sweater, and then his mouth was on hers and his heart shouted a resounding yes. Her lips parted under his, accepting him, taking him in. It was like coming home after an eternity away. The rightness of it flooded through him, urging him to take more, to have more, and he burned with it, fighting the need that rose up, so fierce and urgent it overwhelmed him. — Lucy Varna

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home. — Madonna Ciccone

I always feel inclined to blame Evangelist for some of the discomfort that poor Christian suffered in the Slough of Despond. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Denying the existence of God cannot make Him go away any more than denying the existence of the Internal Revenue Service can make the tax man vanish. Many people who imagine a god of their own choosing will be horrified when they stand before the true God of heaven. — Billy Graham

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things. — Alfie Kohn

It was just regular growing up, of course, the kind everyone does - but it still hurt him, I know, like the memory I have of the time he dropped me off at the train station when I was going back to Chicago. I could see him through the window of the train, but he couldn't see me through the tinted glass.
I waved, trying to get his attention as he walked up and down the platform trying to figure out where I was sitting. From up in the train, he looked so small. If he'd seen me, he would have smiled and waved, but he didn't know I could see him, and the sadness on his face was exposed to me then. He looked lost. He stood there on the platform a long time, even after my train started pulling away, still trying to catch a glimpse of me waving back. — Catherine Chung

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore. — John Bradshaw

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style. — Magnus Carlsen

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity. — Dalai Lama