Shirley Ann Durdin Quotes & Sayings

I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act. — Roxy Writer

Exasperatingly, we're all pretty much restricted to learning what people are like with the permanent confound of our own presence, which is why those chance glimpses of someone you love just walking down the street can seem so precious. — Lionel Shriver

The Baby said, 'Wanty go walky'; and the fly stopped with a last rattle and jolt. — E. Nesbit

Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do. — Sydney J. Harris

Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop. — Hanya Yanagihara

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. — Salvador Dali

It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed. — Sunday Adelaja

Such terms as 'diagnosis' and 'pathology' are of course used analogically here, but I am using the word 'science' deliberate and unequivocally in its original and broad sense of discovery and knowing, rather than its conventional sense of isolating the secondary causes of natural phenomena. For if I believe anything, it is that the primary business of literature and art is cognitive, a kind of finding out and knowing and telling, both in good times and bad; a celebration of the way things are when they are right, and a diagnostic enterprise when they are wrong. — Walker Percy

Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens. — Naguib Mahfouz

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures. — Janet Evanovich

There's nothing wrong with us. There's nothing missing in us. Everything is for us and there is nothing against us. Let us remember this together. — Michael Beckwith

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us. — Michael Richards