Poesys Quotes & Sayings

The hope is a touch of graceful humor, no matter what's occurring. The ability to laugh, the ability to see the ridiculous, the ability not to tense up too much, when things become impossible, just to face them anyhow. A touch of humor. Let's say laughter through the flame. Or, guts. Courage ... Humor, guts, and courage, no matter the odds. We can always face that. — Charles Bukowski

Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that. — Brandi L. Bates

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation. — Alec Baldwin

Danes had on their windows; the entire city had to be completely darkened at night. In a nearby tree, a bird was singing; otherwise it was quiet. It was the last night of September. "Go, now, and get into your nightgowns. It will be a long night." Annemarie and Ellen got to their feet. Papa suddenly crossed the room and put his arms around them both. He kissed the top of each head: Annemarie's blond one, which reached to his shoulder, and Ellen's dark hair, the thick — Lois Lowry

The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses. — James Madison

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one. — Chris Cleave

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom. — Michel De Montaigne

I have $100 billion ... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime ... — Bill Gates

For what level of mediocrity will you settle? — Brandon Lee

My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section. — Rodney Dangerfield

Perhaps we know each other in the future and you're only remembering backward. — Marissa Meyer

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones. — Orlando Bloom

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power. — Denis Healey