Pauvresse Quotes & Sayings

Shit, I'd heard all the songs about love but never really got them before. Didn't understand that it can come out of nowhere, grab you in a chokehold, then bodyslam you into the road until you give in to it, accept it for what it is: an unpredictable, uncontrollable force of nature that tames you. You don't choose it, you can't rationalize it, and you sure as shit don't know when it's going to hit. — Nikki Pink

When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to grasp. Offer him, say, $10 to mow the lawn. When he has mowed it and asks to be paid, withhold $5 and explain that this is income tax. Give $1 to his younger brother, and tell him that this is "fair". Also, explain that you need the other $4 yourself to cover the administrative costs of dividing the money. When he cries, tell him he is being "selfish" and "greedy". Later in life he will thank you. — Joseph Sobran

It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived. — Amanda Nuri

Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there. — Rob Thomas

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet. — Michael Pollan

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost. — Henry Benjamin Whipple

Our stories are different; our pain is the same. — Betty Buckley

My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women ... We have to be able to champion other women. We have to root for each other's successes and not delight in one another's failures. — Michelle Obama

As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue. — Louise L. Hay

[A] smile is the most becoming
ornament that any lady can wear. — Susanna Clarke

He hated stupidity. It was the only emotion I had ever seen him display toward people - a — Ayn Rand