Ourished Quotes & Sayings

I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs. — Barbara Woodhouse

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play. — Marcus Allen

Forgive me if, in friendship's way, I offer thee a wreath of May ... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven ... So I have Ivy placed between, To prove that worth is ever green. The little blue Forget-me-not ... Spring's messenger in every spot, Smiling on all - Remember me! — John Clare

If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship. — Chris Prentiss

There are people who need people to need them. The reason you don't understand is because you're not one of those people. You'd use me and then toss me away like a paper bag if that's what it came down to. God fucked you, my friend. You're just smart enough so it would hurt you to do that, and just hard enough so you'd go ahead and do it anyway. You wouldn't be able to help yourself. — Stephen King

I liked forgetting my cares. Thanks to wine, you didn't forget them, they just stopped scaring you for a while. — Andre Aciman

There's more to life than sex." I grinned. "You're right. There's kissing. Foreplay. Blow jobs. Blow jobs are my favorite. — Sosie Frost

No civilization can possibly survive to an interstellar spacefaring phase unless it limits its numbers.
Any society with a marked population explosion will be forced to devote all its energies and technological skills to feeding and caring for the population on its home planet. This is a very powerful conclusion and is in no way based on the idiosyncrasies of a particular civilization. On any planet, no matter what its biology or social system, an exponential increase in population will swallow every resource. Conversely, any civilization that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonization must have exercised zero population growth or something very close to it for many generations. — Carl Sagan

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. — Leonard Slatkin

People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that. — Rachel Joyce

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things. — Anthea Turner

LO! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone — Edgar Allan Poe

For once I've met a girl whose beauty on the inside is so powerful and deep, the surface beauty is almost secondary — Julie Lessman

Stand still ... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast. — Charles R. Swindoll

Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences. — Gwendolyn Heasley