Qianson Quotes & Sayings

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out. — Dashiell Hammett

But faith doesn't mean that to me anymore. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you don't, and not giving up until you see it too. — Jessica Knoll

When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped. — Myrtle Reed

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves. — Helen Garner

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in. — Kiran Millwood Hargrave

But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won't be like one of the memories that fritters away into nothing when you come out of that game. This will leave a stain. You'll carry for it for ever, when you could have had a few more years of blissful innocence. Are you sure, now? — Alastair Reynolds

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be. — Rosie O'Donnell

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Now let me say this: when you're traveling a good cloak is worth more than all of your other possessions put together. If you've nowhere to sleep, it can be your bed and blanket. It will keep the rain off your back and the sun from your eyes. You can conceal all manner of interesting weaponry beneath it if you are clever, and a smaller assortment if you are not.
But beyond all that, two facts remain to recommend a cloak. First, very little is as striking as well-worn cloak, billowing lightly about you in the breeze. And second, the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward. — Patrick Rothfuss

If you love a woman, you can dominate her. That's why lovers go on playing politics with each other, dominating, possessing; the fear is there that if you don't dominate you will be lost and the other will dominate, so they continuously fight. Husbands and wives, lovers, go on fighting; the fight is for existence, to survive. The fear is there, "I may be lost in the other." — Rajneesh

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy. — Carnie Wilson

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it. — Arthur Balfour

Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one. — Poppy Z. Brite