Ten Ways Of Loving Quotes & Sayings

The North Americans' sense of time is very special. They are short on patience. Everything must be quick, including food and sex, which the rest of the world treats ceremoniously. Gringos invented two terms that are untranslatable into most languages: "snack" and "quickie," to refer to eating standing up and loving on the run ... that, too, sometimes standing up. The most popular books are manuals: how to become a millionaire in ten easy lessons, how to lose fifteen pounds a week, how to recover from your divorce, and so on. People always go around looking for shortcuts, and ways to escape anything they consider unpleasant: ugliness, old age, weight, illness, poverty, and failure in any of its aspects. — Isabel Allende

Of all horrid things, leave-taking is the worst. — Jane Austen

Anything that can be proven cannot last. — Jonah Blank

As women go, so goes civilization. — Laura Schlessinger

Although I doubt He [Jesus] said "believeth" as He was Jewish and not a fancy-pants English fellow. — Lisa Samson

On the Ridgeway path, aged nine or ten, was where for the first time I realized the power a person might feel by aligning themselves to deep history. Only much later did I understand these intimations of history had their own, darker, history. The chalk country-cult rested on a presumption of organic connections to a landscape, a sense of belonging sanctified through an appeal to your own imagined lineage. That chalk downloads held their national, as well as natural, histories. And it was much later, too, that I realized that these myths hurt. That they work to wipe away other cultures, other histories, other ways of loving, working and being in a landscape. How they tiptoe towards darkness. — Helen Macdonald

photo album a minute later. She set it gently on the table and opened to the last page. It was a professional high — Christine Husom

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it — Malik Ibn Anas

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it. — Alton Brown

Music just ain't what it used to;
We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to. — Jadakiss

Can I still dunk ... Are you stupid? — Michael Jordan

Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be. — Bernhard Schlink

I am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it. — Johnny Carson

Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind — Robert Hunter