Unacted Quotes & Sayings

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it. — Christopher Fowler

That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes. — Robert Louis Stevenson

But you don't always have to ask to know. — Howard Jacobson

Your problem, hon, is that you turn every simple box of a problem into a Rubik's Cube. — Brad Vance

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. — William Blake

Home is not a place. It is a feeling. — Cecelia Ahern

So for now wave good-bye leave your hands held high — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He said he'd hurt himself against a wall or had fallen down.
But there was probably some other reason for the wounded, the bandaged shoulder.
With a rather abrupt gesture, reaching for a shelf to bring down some photographs he wanted to look at, the bandage came came undone and a little blood ran.
I did it up again, taking my time over the binding; he wasn't in pain and I liked looking at the blood. It was a thing of my love, that blood.
When he left, I found, in front of his chair, a bloody rag, part of the dressing, a rag to be thrown straight into the garbage; and I put it to my lips and kept it there a long while- the blood of love against my lips. — Constantine P. Cavafy

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because he had plenty of clean sheets, and he only had one Kat. — Tara Janzen

It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good. — George Eliot

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere. — Alan Alda

And you'll feel sorry for yourself forever because of it, will you," she said. "A fine figure you are. It's not enough you have a warm house and a man to black your boots. You've food in your belly and a fire to warm your toes. You have clothes and clothes and clothes; you keep your own carriage, ye daft fool! There's folks who would fall on their knees in thanks to have any of those things, and all you can patter on about is people talking about you and a limp that cuts your fine stride. You can't even take a bit of sympathy, but keep to your gloom about it." She flipped one hand at him in disgust. "You're naught but a spoiled lad. — Caroline Linden

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all. — Kate DiCamillo

I don't look on the Internet; it's a world of pain. — Max Irons