Unflorally Quotes & Sayings

I privately say to you old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parenthesis: (((( )))). I suppose, most unflorally, I truly mean them to be taken, first off as bow-legged
buckle-legged
omens of my state of mind and body at this writing. — J.D. Salinger

Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or have. Some desires are merely passing fancies, but others stay with us and go deeper. Our desires and our goals give us direction and focus. They help point us down our path of action in our life. — Shakti Gawain

The pyre was a ditch 50 yards long, six yards wide and three yards deep, a welter of burning bodies. SS soldiers, stationed at five-yard intervals along the pathway side of the ditch, awaited their victims. They were holding small caliber arms - six millimeters - used in the KZ for administering a bullet in the back of the neck. At the end of the pathway two Sonderkommando men seized the victims by the arms and dragged them for 15 or 20 yards into position before the SS. Their cries of terror covered the sound of the shots. A shot, then, immediately afterwards, even before he was dead, the victim was hurled into the flames. — Miklos Nyiszli

Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul. — Maurice Maeterlinck

In both England and the United States, he observed, the contemporary trend was to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened. — Joan Didion

The kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory. ========== — Anonymous

A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you. — Roland Smith

He can only bear tragedy if it's abstract. — Lauren Groff

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you. — Voltaire

The four things that matter in life: 1) love 2) honesty 3) faith 4) courage. — Bill Butterworth

When I started modeling, I was young and sort of a bit reckless - I wanted to make money and didn't really care about anything else. — Suki Waterhouse

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them. — Tom Daley

Energy, curiosity, and wonder are not products of age. They're byproducts of what we do. — Eric Greitens

I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much. — James Purefoy

Oh, and Knievel stared you down, and you gave in so quick." Jed laughed lowly, rubbing his hand over Redford's stomach. "You're now my cat's bitch. — Robin Saxon