Romps Putt Quotes & Sayings

People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me. — Henri Nouwen

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it? — Boss Tweed

Also usually employed one or more resident physicians, barbers, priests, painters, musicians, minstrels, secretaries and copyists, an astrologer, a jester, and a dwarf, besides pages and squires. — Barbara W. Tuchman

A man loves a thing. That don't mean it's gotta love him back. — James Jones

After four marriages, and four deaths, she had everything in life a woman might desire: titled position, swollen coffers, the freedom to travel, and a world that accepted her because it was afraid of her. — Gail Carriger

As she lived and suffered - was that redundant? - she discovered God in the most unusual places, sensed calm in the most tumultuous times. She had learned her way to and from, but especially through the dark passages of pain and regret. She had discovered how to sit still through the urgency of life. — Ana Veciana-Suarez

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable. — Andrew Mehrtens

He faced Darktail. "You will take this Clan over my dead body." Delight sparked in Darktail's gaze. "That sounds fair." The rogue leader flung himself at Rowanstar. — Erin Hunter

It's like if Ryan Gosling showed up at your door dressed like Noah from The Notebook, bearing flowers and whiskey. You'd be stupid not to take that bike for a ride. — Staci Hart

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. — Douglas Coupland