The Tiger S Bride Quotes & Sayings

There's a special madness strikes travellers from the North when they reach the lovely land where the lemon trees grow. We come from countries of cold weather; at home, we are at war with nature but here, ah! you think you've come to the blessed plot where the lion lies down with the lamb. Everything flowers; no harsh wind stirs the voluptuous air. The sun spills fruit for you. And the deathly, sensual lethargy of the sweet South infects the starved brain; it gasps: 'Luxury! more luxury!' But then the snow comes, you cannot escape it, it followed us from Russia as if it ran behind our carriage, and in this dark, bitter city has caught up with us at last, flocking against the windowpanes to mock my father's expectations of perpetual pleasure as the veins in his forehead stand out and throb, his hands shake as he deals the Devil's picture books. — Angela Carter

In business for yourself, but not by yourself. — Ray Kroc

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents. — Rosemary Mahoney

If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness. — Chogyam Trungpa

Hate is an occupation, love is a destiny. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

The word 'bollocks' is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of inevitable disaster. And — Ben Aaronovitch

No way this could be seen as probable or possible, unless you think of a blow between the eyes, a sudden calamity. The stroke of fate that leaves a man a cripple, the wicked joke that turns clear eyes into blind stones. — Alice Munro

Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it. — Ivan Panin

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass. — Angela Carter

If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture? — Lewis Mumford

Dimka wondered what it must be like, to love a woman for half a century and then lose her, suddenly, between one beat of the heart and the next. — Ken Follett

Remember this... No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of stress can alter the future, so relax an live each day as it comes. — Karen Gibbs

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination. — Thomas Sowell

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul.
Forgiveness isn't weakness.
It is power. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. — Dean Kamen