Samplethat Review Quotes & Sayings

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. — P.D. Ouspensky

Six Lines

I know that in this world no one needs me,
me, a word-beggar in the Jewish graveyard
Who needs a poem, especially in Yiddish?

Only what is hopeless on this earth has beauty
and only the ephemeral is godly
and humility is the only true rebellion — Aaron Zeitlin

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct. — Jerry Jeff Walker

I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up. — Zara Phillips

I gave my jersey to Mourinho because he's the best coach in the world and I love him like a father. — Mesut Ozil

Aye, milord." She snuggled close to him, but his low, wheezing laughter made her draw back again to try to see the eyes that were only a dark shadow behind the silken cloth.
"Something amuses you?"
"Sleep! 'Twill be impossible with you in my arms."
"Shall I go?" she questioned, resting a hand on his chest.
"Never!" He caught her to him in a fierce embrace, burying his face against her throat.
-Erienne & Lord Saxton — Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself. — Evan Esar

You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take preventive action. Relax, boychick. When they get to know you better they will realize that they were right. You are a shit. — Mordecai Richler

I've had plentiful opportunities for great things. Just didn't open my eyes. — Johan Coetzer

Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for yourself and seeing what's there, not what you got told was there. — William Least Heat-Moon

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use. — Chogyam Trungpa

For years now there had been no country here but the war. — Michael Herr

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. — Aristotle.

Sometimes we mistake patience for weakness, but the patient person often realizes that it's much more important for another person to discover his or her own gifts and shortcomings
the patient person doesn't feel a need to "fix" other people, and sometimes will let certain things slide until the other person recognizes the problems. Patient parents often let their kids make the same mistake two or three times because they know that a lesson learned oneself is almost always preferable to a lesson given to us by an authority figure like a parent. — Tom Walsh