Rainbows Poems Quotes & Sayings

It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought. — C.J. Langenhoven

In reality, at the time I was being incredibly negative and seeing things worse than they were. I was using my pessimism as a shield. It was my feeble attempt at protecting myself from the pain of failed expectations: I'd do anything to keep from being disappointed once again. But in adopting this pattern, this same barrier that kept me out of pain also kept me out of pleasure. It barred me from solutions and sealed me in a tomb of emotional death where one never experiences too much pain or too much pleasure, and where one continuously justifies one's limited actions by stating they're just being realistic. — Anthony Robbins

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. — Langston Hughes

The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then:
"Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up! — Eva Ibbotson

A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job. — Jack Lynch

Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so. — Barbara Barrington Jones

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control. — Publilius Syrus

Every book is a good one, except for the ones that aren't. Which there hardly ever are. — Black Butler