Sarness Quotes & Sayings

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York. — Evelyn Waugh

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. — Arthur Keith

Shadow was amused, and a little puzzled, to realize that he was far more concerned about breaking the rules by climbing onto the carousel than he had been aiding and abetting this afternoon's bank robbery. — Neil Gaiman

It was a great help to a person who had to toil all the week to be able to look forward to some such relaxation as this on Saturday nights. The family was too poor and too hardworked to make many acquaintances; in Packingtown, as a rule, people know only their near neighbors and shopmates, and so the place is like a myriad of little country villages. But now there was a member of the family who was permitted to travel and widen her horizon; and so each week there would be new personalities to talk about, - how so-and-so was dressed, and where she worked, and what she got, and whom she was in love with; and how this man had jilted his girl, and how she had quarreled with the other girl, and what had passed between them; and how another man beat his wife, and spent all her earnings upon drink, and pawned her very clothes. Some people would have scorned this talk as gossip; but then one has to talk about what one knows. It — Upton Sinclair

A rested face is a beautiful face. However you can, find your place of rest and peace. — Goldie Hawn

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us. — Jeff VanderMeer

The people love him. So how can we condemn him? — Jacob Zuma

You should have been here, Will, I told him silently. It was you she really needed. — Jojo Moyes

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me — Richard Branson