Surprise Birthday Gifts Quotes & Sayings

Time is helpless, he thought to himself, helpless in the face of our feelings. Nine years have passed, and not a note in her voice is different, not a nerve in my body hears her in any other way. Nothing is lost, nothing is past and over, her presence is as much of a tender delight now as it was then. — Stefan Zweig

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home. — Lynn Johnston

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack. — Wilford Brimley

Success is not an accident, it's a result of the choices we make based on things we believe in.. — Jeremy Marcus Coatesoates

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy. — Ann Coulter

You don't lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don't lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don't understand. A diary might help explain it to you. — Harvey Penick

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. — Helen Rowland

You can do wonderful deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

calmness wasn't an end in itself — F Scott Fitzgerald

All things are possible for whoever believes. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not sure why you are playing hard to get," he breathed, his lips so close to my skin that I fought hard not to shudder. "You shouldn't try to play games with me because I'm not a player. I'm the coach. — Adriana Locke

He will never be satisfied," writes one biographer ... I know because I suffer from the same disease ... I don't believe for a minute that the flowers ever faded or the stars were ever dimmed in Rimbaud's eyes ... It was the world of men that his weary glance saw things pale and fade. He began by wanting to "see all, feel all, exhaust everything, explore everything, say everything." ... He had no choice of fighting for the rest of his life to hold the ground he had gained or to renounce the struggle utterly. Why could he not have compromised? Because compromise was not in his vocabulary. He was a fanatic from childhood, a person who had to go the whole hog or die. In this lied his purity, his innocence. — Henry Miller

I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar. — Jack Barakat

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism. — Theodore Roosevelt