Rainswept Quotes & Sayings

A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained. — Binnie Kirshenbaum

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. — James Clavell

The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual ... that calming, quiet time where you can just do your hair and makeup. And then I would always lace up my right skate before my left one. — Kristi Yamaguchi

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us. — Ashleigh Brilliant

But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love
the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen. — Joyce Carol Oates

I hope you won't mind, because I haven't shaved since this morning, but I'm going to take you round the next quiet corner and kiss you. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life. — Carl Jung

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. — Thomas Bernhard

I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language. — Kevin Dillon

Oh, it was easy to be a soldier, it was much less easy to become a man again. — Simone De Beauvoir

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people. — John Steinbeck

Today's science should also relieve us of the fear that our children are at great risk to be recruited into homosexuality. I believe that if the gay community sent missionaries door to door like we Mormons do, spreading the good news of homosexuality, they would get pitifully few converts, probably only a small sliver of the terminally confused. "Join us and very possibly break your parents' hearts, throw the family into chaos, run the risk of intense self-loathing, especially if you are religious, invite the disgust of much of society, give up the warmth and benefits of marriage and probably of parenthood." (16) — Carol Lynn Pearson

Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me. — Leif Enger