Sconvolgente Quotes & Sayings

My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind. — Rick Perry

When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea. — Matthew Zapruder

I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger. — Erik Weihenmayer

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq. — Bob Schaffer

Find some dreamers, people who — Joel Osteen

Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain. — Peter Brooks

Without your own inner beast tamed ye can never tame the wild ones around ye! — Jennifer Silverwood

And Constantine thought: So this is how it is, at the end. — George Pelecanos

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room. — Linda Cardellini

Beneath the St. Lucian sun, with a wisp of a tropical breeze, he kissed her with all the pent-up desire that had built within him since he'd first laid eyes on her. She parted her satiny, supple lips and he deepened their kiss, each sweep of her tongue sending a new wave of pleasure pulsing through him. — Tracy March

Why should one ever get pain? One is the Absolute Supreme Self (parmatma), how can one have any pain? It is the egoism that causes pain and it is also the egoism that suffers the pain! The absolute Supreme Self doesn't have any suffering! — Dada Bhagwan

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love. — Daniel Tammet

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. — William Hazlitt

So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?" — Anne Lamott

Oh, but your world is ripe for ruling. I dream about during the days as well as the nights. Do I burn the world slowly with plague and famine, or should the slaughter be quick and painless- All that life, extinguished so quickly, imagine how it would burn! Imagine the heights I could rise to, borne aloft on the screams of billions of people, raised up by the smoke of millions of burning hearts! — Cassandra Clare