Surged Carpet Quotes & Sayings

As I'm smiling but fearing for the worse, he asks if I was in the Navy.
"NO. THIS IS JUST MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME."
"WELL, I WAS... FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS."
I don't know whether he wants me to apologize for impersonating a sailor, thank him for his service, or stop drooling as I melt into his eyes — Giorge Leedy

Sorry, maybe this is the head injury talking, but ... what? — Stacey Kade

Two things children shall receive from their parents: roots and wings — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future. — Eva Paterson

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. — Irvine Welsh

They have so smothered me in their middle-class refinement that I don't know how there can be any blood left in my veins. I lowered my eyes, put on a dismal, silly expression, just like them; I was just as dead-and-alive as they were. — Emile Zola

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny. — Tom Ford

I shall have the liberty to think for myself. — John Adams

Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control. — Kathleen Norris

The angry one looked her over. "What's your name?" "These are not the droids you are looking for," she said. The smaller, auburn-haired man to her left cracked up. — Alanea Alder

No, when the time comes, I'm sure I'll kill just like everybody else. I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to ... to show the Capitol they don't own me. — Suzanne Collins

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested. — Ramin Bahrani

Winners accept responsibility because acceptance of responsibility nullifies excuses. — George M. Gilbert