Sidetracked Book Quotes & Sayings

There are three things without which there is no country
common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land
for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union. — Thomas Davis

The woman, one of those usually known as a good-time girl, was famous for the premature portliness which had earned her the nickname Boule de Suif. Small, round as a barrel, fat as butter and with fingers tightly jointed like strings of small sausages, her glowing skin and the enormous bosom which strained under the constraints of her dress - as well as her freshness, which was a delight to the eye - made her hugely desirable and much sought after. She had a rosy apple of a face, a peony bud about to burst into bloom. Out of it looked two magnificent dark eyes shaded by thick black lashes. Further down was a charming little mouth complete with invitingly moist lips and tiny, gleaming pearly-white teeth. She was said to possess a variety of other inestimable qualities. — Guy De Maupassant

What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself. — Frederick Lenz

Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it. — Megan Shepherd

There's no protocol on how to console your girlfriend of four years who you just met this morning. — Colleen Hoover

If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word. — Charles R. Swindoll

I came to the Kardashians a bit late, and I'm still just gob-smacked. Who are these people? — Jennifer Saunders

Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues and even all vices. — Fernando Pessoa

I revisit my book piles. Trying not to be sidetracked or lured into another dimension. — Patti Smith

In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can help in some way heal the equation with [Afro-Americans] what's going on with us as people. — Forest Whitaker

Stop reading the news for a week; you will see that the world will turn from red to blue! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry. — Brendon Burchard

Colon in particular had great difficulty with the idea that you went on investigating after someone had confessed. It outraged his training and experience. You got a confession and there it ended. You didn't go around disbelieving people. You disbelieved people only when they said they were innocent. Only guilty people were trustworthy. Anything — Terry Pratchett

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. — Paulo Coelho

Most days drift by like clouds. Others burn deep into your life like a blister...and you're left wondering,forever. — Kate Maryon