Songlyrics Quotes & Sayings

I like pouring your tea, lifting
the heavy pot, and tipping it up,
so the fragrant liquid steams in your china cup.
Or when you're away or at work,
I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip,
as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips. — Carol Ann Duffy

Sometimes that's all life is ... One desperate act after another. — Terry Goodkind

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too. — Annie Lennox

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart. — Ravi Zacharias

It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a means to some end beyond itself, and ultimately to happiness, is desired as itself a part of happiness, and is not desired for itself until it has become so. Those who desire virtue for its own sake, desire it either because the consciousness of it is a pleasure, or because the consciousness of being without it is a pain, or for both reasons united; as in truth the pleasure and pain seldom exist separately, but almost always together, the same person feeling pleasure in the degree of virtue attained, and pain in not having attained more. If one of these gave him no pleasure, and the other no pain, he would not love or desire virtue, or would desire it only for the other benefits which it might produce to himself or to persons whom he cared for. — John Stuart Mill

The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge — Kofi Annan

The greatest wonder of my life is how God feed me in the wilderness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How hard it is to see things in life with a child's "eyes of newness" once we have an adult's "eyes of experience". — BigDaddy Abel

All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak — Margaret Walker

Theres a boy lost his way looking for someone to play theres a girl in the window tears rolling down her face were only lost children looking to find a friend — Demi Lovato

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. — Wolfgang Tillmans