Pozostawieni Quotes & Sayings

I stop dead in my tracks when I see Nash leaning against the wall right outside the ladies' room. His legs are crossed casually at the ankle, as his arms are crossed casually over his chest. His smile is faint. And sad.
Finally, he straightens and steps toward me. He doesn't stop until he is mere inches from me, forcing me to tilt my face up just to maintain eye contact.
He brushes his thumb over the ridge of my cheekbone at the corner of my eye. I wonder briefly if I missed a streak of mascara.
"I'm so sorry," he whispers, closing his eyes as if in pain. His face is etched with regret and it tugs at my heart.
"Don't be. You can't control other people. I just hope I haven't embarrassed you too badly, or ruined any important business connections you were hoping to make."
"I don't care about business connections. Not at this cost. — M. Leighton

Whatever men make," she says, "what they felt when they made it is there ... Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things. — John Updike

The termagant who had dragged him out on long, boring walks, who had tried in vain to censor his reading, who had labeled him an impious liar and criminal, was dead at last, and the boy, hearing a servant say 'she has passed away', sank to his knees on the kitchen floor to thank God for so great a deliverance. — Jonathan Keates

Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings. — Thomas More

Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us. — Tony Judt

MARIE
As the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another.
WOYZECK
I saw him.
MARIE
You can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining. — Georg Buchner

Say the rest, not when his brother was so white and stiff. "And?" "And they realized the caller meant a bomb in the theater. The police were there within minutes, five, ten at the most. They heard it go off." Alexander pressed his lips together. "Where?" "In her office. Alexander," he continued quickly, "she wouldn't have been in there. Eve's too smart for that. — Nora Roberts

Better to be the hunter than the hunted. Even if you're hunting yourself. — Jennifer Niven

Rejection of food: This was the first hurdle I encountered after parting with him. Refusing food is basically a refusal of relationships, and if it gets worse it can turn into a frightening illness, leading to a complete destruction of all human contact. — Kyung-ran Jo

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish. — Darrell Royal