Quaranta Nougat Quotes & Sayings

He was right to notice something missing. She had not stated her fundamental view: that, for Duncan, time and place, fortune and misfortune, only had a glancing impact. He was temperamentally condemned to embitterment and would revert to that condition regardless of circumstances, just as lottery winners, after the euphoria, ended up as morose or cheerful as they'd ever been. People did not see the world for what it was but for what they were. — Tom Rachman

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder. — Dave Matthews

If he checks your phone bills or shopping receipts, something isn't right. Controlling your partner in any way is unhealthy. I've been with my girlfriend for five years and it's important to me that she feels relaxed and free. I hate to see someone made to feel unsafe and helpless - particularly women as men are physically stronger. — Ashley Banjo

I was an elementary school teacher. — Luciano Pavarotti

There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself. — Jodi Picoult

It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way - a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Suzanne Young

I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and a string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity. — Dylan Moran

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood. — Richard Rorty