Mixed Matched Quotes & Sayings

I so mixed and matched the planet that you sometimes worried I had no commitments to anything or anywhere, though you were wrong; my commitments were simply far-flung and extremely specific. — Lionel Shriver

He only felt a traitorous part of his body that wanted to be connected to her. But he knew better than to listen to that part of himself. It had a mind of its own that could get him into all kinds of nightmares if he let it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dreaming costs nothing, it is absolutely free but its reward is enormous. Learn to dream for this is one of the things the unstoppable women do! — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Western spiritual seekers began picking and choosing from Eastern philosophies based on their preferences. Wanting to get away from myth and dogma, they mixed and matched, shook and stirred, mashed and meshed, blended and juiced . . . and in the process, well, they lost their way. They created a number of philosophical inconsistencies. — Gudjon Bergmann

Yes, he was the one who fueled the rumors after that. I could never have done what he himself did, convincing and persuading the world that he was indeed the Hero. I don't know if he himself believed it, but he made others think that he must be the one. — Brandon Sanderson

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. — Francis Bacon

What's important is the will to win. In the real world we can't always win. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. — Haruki Murakami

Excellent leaders of people lower themselves. — Laozi

Everyone starts life with a fire in their soul; sadly most are snuffed out in the storms of life. — Orrin Woodward

The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them. — James Joyce

Self-preservation is an art and I a masterpiece. — Sonya Vatomsky

There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules. — Wolf Kahn

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. — Colin Farrell

As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower. — Dana Torres