Roadside Romeo Memorable Quotes & Sayings

By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time. — Sherwin B. Nuland

So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park. — Norm Dicks

A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk. — Harvey MacKay

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. — Mignon McLaughlin

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses
it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What about that five-foot-four woman, who never inflicted physical or emotional violence, or even saw a punishment all the way through, terrified her husband and children to the point of unconditional surrender? Jacob — Jonathan Safran Foer

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty. — Penn Jillette

There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid. — Lisa Gardner

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing. — Karl Ove Knausgard