Quente Beach Quotes & Sayings

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel. — Renee Fleming

Might was the measure of right. — Marcus Annaeus Lucan

I saw that, although they were at the mercy of the sweltering heat, or the pains of aging or poverty, they could tolerate these because their faith gave them the hope of being united in spirit with a supernatural presence.

I still denied that presence. My denial, I was realizing, was my armor; it allowed me to deflect a barrage of difficult questions. But it didn't answer those questions. It protected me from charlatans, yes, but it didn't fill my emptiness or give me direction. Doubt served a purpose, but it also prevented me from trusting anyone or anything. Without trust, how could I ever be happy? — Visakha Dasi

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. — Chuck Palahniuk

Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk."
You aren't standing up." he point out.
You are. — Diana Gabaldon

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set. — Jimmy Cannon

A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog. — Lori Borgman

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep. — Austin O'Malley

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Raskolnikov was not used to crowds, and, as we said before, he avoided society of every sort, more especially of late. But now all at once he felt a desire to be with other people. Something new seemed to be taking place within him, and with it he felt a sort of thirst for company. He was so weary after a whole month of concentrated wretchedness and gloomy excitement that he longed to rest, if only for a moment, in some other world, whatever it might be; and, in spite of the filthiness of the surroundings, he was glad now to stay in the tavern. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

'The X-Files' was a hard sell because people didn't know what it was. The network didn't understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode. — Chris Carter

the nights would be orphaned
without the sound of crickets chirping. — Sanober Khan

Casey was the better team and the better team won. — Bill Evans

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. — Alain De Botton