Sottacqua Quotes & Sayings

All things in life are fleeting so live in the moment — Sonya Watson

She said, "I love you, Con," because whatever Jakob believed about those three words, they still mattered to Harper. They were as close to an incantation as any she knew, had power other words lacked. "I'll — Joe Hill

My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be. — Fred Couples

Are there not a thousand forms of sorrow? Is the sorrow of death the same as the sorrow of knowing the pain in a child's future? What about the melancholy of music? Is it the same as the melancholy of a summer dusk? Is the loss I was feeling for my father the same I would have felt for a man better-fit to the world, a man who might have thrown a baseball with me or taken me out in the mornings to fish? Both we call grief. I don't think we have words for our feelings any more than we have words for our thoughts. — Ethan Canin

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over. — Joseph P. Kennedy III

The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team. — Lamar Odom

Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be retained. And this is not difficult: it is just that we have not tried it, that's all. It is like swimming: if you have not tried it, it looks very difficult; it looks very dangerous too. And you cannot believe how people can swim because you simply drown! But once you have tried a little bit it comes easily; it is very natural. — Rajneesh

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting. — Taylor Dayne

When outsiders stare into the void that is today's North Korea, they think of remote villages of Africa or Southeast Asia where the civilizing hand of electricity has not yet reached. But North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world. You can see the evidence of what once was and what has been lost dangling overhead alongside any major North Korean road - the skeletal wires of the rusted electrical grid that once covered the entire country. — Barbara Demick

Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks ... but not in my area. — Wolfgang Ketterle

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy. — Angela Carter

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat! — Trey Anastasio

You're behaving generously, old boy, and, you know, one needs a devil of a lot of tact to get people to forgive one one's generosity. Fortunately women are frivolous and they very quickly forget the benefits conferred upon them. Otherwise, of course, there'd be no living with them.
[The back of beyond] — W. Somerset Maugham

I'd give up everything for him, but then what? He has no job, I have no money, and we both live in a box. Love sucks. — H.M. Ward

In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run. — David Eddings