Stompings Quotes & Sayings

You are only responsible for your actions, and your response to other people's actions. — Anonymous

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit. — Margaret Atwood

I guess its because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone-anyone-feel a little better. — J.D Scrubs

After we deal and heal ... NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS
... Jan Marshall — Jan Marshall

The sorrow which has no vent in tears
may make other organs weep. — Henry Maudsley

By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess. — Rabindranath Tagore

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing. — Dan Simmons

You smell like the floor of a bar."
"Hey. I resent that. I have lots of fond memories of bar floors. — Nichole Chase

Her body felt like it'd been beaten with a hose. This must be what it felt like to get old. It wasn't that your body fell apart from living so long. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them again. — Janet Fitch

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Tolkien, J.R.R.) - Your Highlight on Location 529-531 | Added on Friday, December 26, 2014 8:28:31 PM Do you think Tom Bombadil, the spirit of the (vanishing) Oxford and Berkshire countryside, could be made into the hero of a story? Or is he, as I suspect, fully enshrined in the enclosed verses?1 Still I could enlarge the portrait. — Anonymous

The next day, eating a turkey sandwich with salt and mayonnaise, Rebecca decided Thanksgiving was the best holiday, although she had little to choose from: her family never celebrated Hanukkah but her father was militant about ignoring Christmas and insisted they spend December 25 eating Chinese takeout and going to the movies. — Anna Quindlen

Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of ... — Jonathan Safran Foer

It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them ever again — Janet Fitch

Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it. — Emil Zatopek

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future. — Hunter S. Thompson

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. — Kate Adie

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you. — Tom Felton