Playing For Keeps Memorable Quotes & Sayings

we love who we love whether we should or not, even though there are more suitable people to love. — Robert B. Parker

He seems to have declared war on the King's English as well as on the English king. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don't you remember? MARK 8:18 HOW'S YOUR SPIRITUAL VISION this morning? Are you focusing on your problems, on what you can't do, on what you can't have? The barrier is in your mind. It's not God's lack of resources or your lack of talent that holds you back. It's simply because you are focused on the wrong things. — Joel Osteen

Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones. — George Lopez

After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn't stop her expectations from rising. She imagined herself transformed and beautiful, like Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, with her homemade dress and mysterious lace boots. She pictured her hair in an upsweep of loose curls. In the fantasy, her prom face looked like the one she only wore asleep, loose and relaxed. She imagined a photographer asking her to smile and, for the first time in her life, being able to do it. — Cammie McGovern

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived. — Bill Johnson

The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind — Stephan Attia

Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement. — Ryan Holiday

Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know. — Billy Joe Shaver

There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates — Chuck Peddle

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die. — Thomas Cole

During the show, she studied him on stage. The way he strummed the guitar, the movement of muscles in his arms and torso, the sway of the tartan fabric with his movements. Her cheeks heated when she thought about running her fingers over his torso and under his kilt. Oh, the things he could do to her with that body. — Lisa Carlisle

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. — Lord Byron

And that was that. You don't get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did. — Silvia Moreno-Garcia