Upynorwood Quotes & Sayings

Most people care more about their appearance than they do about the condition of their souls. — Dean Koontz

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. — Cary Grant

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching. — Tris Speaker

From Pearls and Poison ...
"In two minutes the cops are going to come barreling though that door," I whispered to Auntie KiKi hoping to get her mind off the body in the back room. "Any suggestions how we tell these workers out here their candidate just croaked?"
"Yell The jackass bit the big one, hip-hip hooray Gloria wins, then run like the dickens before someone recognizes us. — Duffy Brown

Elle had gone off in another direction and made him swear to 'whatever twisted deity he believed in' that he wasn't going to follow her. Really made him wonder where the hell she was going. — Sharon Stevenson

Never wade through the pretty ripples
of perpetually flowing
rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters,
and prayed to them,
and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water. — Hesiod

Oh soldier, how did we come to such a place? — Thea Harrison

I'm a control freak. And more so now that I have children. — Mariella Frostrup

It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become. — Epictetus

Remember that we become what we believe that we should be, so resentment may stop us from realizing it. Resentment and victimization affect your vibration and lead you to attract challenges related to more situations that make you feel like a victim and resentful. — Daniel Marques

We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant. — Anita Roddick

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me. — John Henry Newman

However, neither occasion quite matched the levels of hilarity that ensued on the day Mr Miller sat on the corner of his desk and farted it to pieces. — Simon Pegg

Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts. — Jeannine Parvati Baker