Robert Barone Quotes & Sayings

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable. — Suzanne Collins

Who dare tries is a success, and shall master the art of conquering dreams. — T.F. Hodge

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life. — Maggie Osborne

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more. — Naomi Watts

Peace of mind: Thou shalt have it only, the answer seemed to come to me, when thou has ceased to desire it. — W. Somerset Maugham

Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Hey," Lula said to Ranger's man."You want to watch it? I just had my hair done. I don't need plaster in it. Next time just shoot a hole is this punk-ass loser, will you? — Janet Evanovich

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest. — Erma Bombeck

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. — John Burnham Schwartz

Pete urged Louie to enter the Compton Open and try his legs at a longer distance. "If you stay with Norman Bright," he told Louie, "you make the Olympic team. — Laura Hillenbrand

We find ways to comfort one another and to comfort ourselves. And comfort eases, but it does not erase. Until then, we keep reading. — Melissa Febos

As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role. — Andy Serkis