Penitents Crossword Quotes & Sayings

When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables. — J.R. Ward

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life. — Aristotle.

I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love; then there were the women who were drawn to him, suffering insults and beatings, finally rejected and yet still clinging to him, degraded by jealousy and despised love, but still remaining faithful. — Hermann Hesse

Nobody ever mentions the good side of OxyContin: It makes you feel like Jesus fucking a horse. — Douglas Coupland

I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Man Code 25: The universal compensation for everything is beer. Unless you agree to monetary compensation ahead of time, all favors will be repaid in beer. If the favor was a big one, beer and pizza is acceptable compensation. Friends should never ask friends to pay them for a favor, unless it's for parts or for tools that are needed to do that specific job that aren't already owned. If you do a favor for someone who doesn't drink, tough shit. Pay them with beer anyway. Just kidding, they can be repaid with some sort of food item. Money still shouldn't be an option. — Charles Esquire Sr.

Everyone makes the best decisions they can with the information they have available at the time. If you get them right half the time, you're doing well. — Chris Broyhill

I swear to God, every other fucker has flat-out deserted me. — Rainbow Rowell

And there is escaping things the knowledge of which makes one unhappy. If "truth" is what we know and are aware of, in the most engrossing fiction we escape truth. Whatever else it is, drama is forgetfulness. We can forget and forget that we are forgetting. It is temporary mind control. If memories are pain, fiction is anesthesia. — Thomas C. Schelling

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness — Leo Tolstoy

I would like to speak 10 languages. — Leon Redbone

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff! — Steven Tyler

One must travel, to learn. — Mark Twain

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Everyone has human heads in their closet. Sometimes the heads are secrets, or unsaid confessions, or quiet fears. This book is one of those severed heads. — Jenny Lawson