Sorriness Quotes & Sayings

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God. — Maria Monk

The Italian city-state of Genoa had nominally ruled Corsica for over two centuries, but rarely tried to extend her control beyond the coastal towns into the mountainous interior, where the Corsicans were fiercely independent. In 1755 Corsica's charismatic nationalist leader, Pasquale Paoli, proclaimed an independent republic, a notion that became — Andrew Roberts

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors. — Simon Cowell

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders. — Eric Schlosser

There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that. — Frederick Lenz

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch. — Peter Farb

It's not how good you are it's how good you want to be — Paul Arden

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed. — Tom Petty

The figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire. — Thomas Hardy

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? — Christopher Marlowe

These are valentines for all the boys at school that I like ... And this is a very special one for my sweet babboo."
"Does your sweet babboo know who he is?"
"Oh, yes, he knows who he is ... "
"I do not! — Charles M. Schulz

(Hadley and Mary in the Garden at Blanchard House)
He laughed, a harsh sound, all sign of humor leaving his eyes. "Don't let any of it fool you, my dear, for even the most tarnished silver can acquire a fine and gleaming polish. And believe me, there is far more tarnish here than an innocent and unschooled eye such as yours can discern."
"Why would you speak so of yourself?" Mary protested.
He reached for a red-gold curl that had escaped her lace cap and coiled it around his !nger. "I would forewarn you, Miss Edwardes that I am a man, and men in general are not to be trusted ... " He held her gaze as he slowly released the ringlet, allowing his fingers to skim her cheek. " ... especially not by pretty young virgins. — Victoria Vane

Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good name in the world lay in her hands. They would give her love, protection, even a sort of homage, but in return for that she must be what they wanted and needed her to be. — Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there. — Pema Chodron

I'm not intense at all. I'm always relaxed. — Mohamed Al-Fayed

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life. — Richard Bach

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. — Thomas Hardy