Stereotypes That Lasted Quotes & Sayings

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins ... — Nicolas Chamfort

All flowers are flirtatious - particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The one-hyphen flowers - black-eyed Susan; lady-smock; musk-rose - may give you only a shy glance and then drop their eyes; the two-hyphen flowers - forget-me-not; flower-de-luce - keep glancing. Flowers with three or more hyphens flirt all over the garden and continue even when they are cut and arranged in vases. John-go-to-bed-at-noon does not go there simply to sleep. — Willard R. Espy

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing. — Tina Fey

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Dan Millman Way Of The Peaceful Warrior A Book That Changes Lives

As we have become more open minded (tolerant) in society we have become more closed hearted. — Peggy Noonan

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a focused person. I am a fighter. — Maria Das Gracas Silva Foster

We've all been through a lot, Bryan, all of us. I know that some have been through more than others. But if we don't expect more from each other, hope better for one another, and recover from the hurt we experience, we are surely doomed. — Bryan Stevenson

Horror. I can't manage it. I become
well
horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect.
When asked, "Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with?" - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul) — Emma Thompson

[Thomas Jefferson] was occasionally troubled by the widespread indifference to marital vows among the rich [in France]. Domestic happiness, as Jefferson understood it, and had experienced it in America, was dismissed as a myth. — Thomas J. Fleming

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain. — Sharon Jaynes

The people are the city. — William Shakespeare