Real Time L2 Quotes & Sayings

I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people. — Ross Kemp

Someday you will name me,
then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.
[Songs of Longing] — Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is short; none of us knows how long we have. Live each day as if it were your last - for someday it will be. — Billy Graham

And remember, small thaws make great floods, so be twice wary of a slowly changing season. — Patrick Rothfuss

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with. — Coleman Barks

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

You had to appreciate the small things in life when the big things made you want to curl up in the corner in the fetal position and give up. — Mia Sheridan

I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages? — Sheryl Lee Ralph

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief. — Eugene Kennedy

She's not my type,' Carter says. 'So what is your type?' 'Tall, skinny, black hair, blue eyes, freckly nose. Blue tinsel wig and snowflakes optional.' 'Skinny?' I squeal. 'Definitely. Pretending to be shy, sensible and stand-offish when really you're mad about me.' 'You sure about that?' 'No, but I'm hoping. — Cathy Cassidy

On a personal level, one of the main reasons I had wanted to cross Antarctica alone was to find out where my limits lay. If I failed because I had found those limits by being unable to continue for mental or physical reasons I would, at least, be returning home with some kind of answer. To fail because I had run out of time was a failure by logistics and as such, answered nothing. I would be left with the same question I had arrived with and that would be the bitter pill, the true failure. I couldn't imagine ever wanting to repeat this journey and so the question would likely always remain unanswered. This was my one and only opportunity and it would be wasted. — Felicity Aston

So many times, we take things to heart and that eats us up, and we think it over and over again with work and our personal life. But most of the time, it is not personal. It may have nothing to do with you but, instead, what the other person is going through in their life. — Camila Alves

We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music. — Jon Stewart