Uvaonsp Quotes & Sayings

Swann had, as he shook the Marquise's hand, seen her bosom from close to and from above, he plunged an attentive, serious, absorbed, almost anxious, gaze into the depths of her corsage, and his nostrils, intoxicated by the woman's perfume, quivered like a butterfly ready to go and settle on the half-glimpsed flower. — Marcel Proust

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. — Albert Schweitzer

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.' — Oscar Pistorius

We want Jesus to come to our house, but we're going to question Him when He gets there. — John Bevere

How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it. — Carolyn Parkhurst

Sometimes we don't get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end. — Colleen Hoover

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. — John Green

Do not suffer your good nature [ ... ] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice — George Washington

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard. — Jane Lynch

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah," replied Bigwig. — Richard Adams

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I'm a strong person. I'm also very sassy and a little bit angsty sometimes. — Ashley Tisdale

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy. — James Gray

You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it's still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could be wrong, but I reckon Michelangelo didn't wake up and think, 'Fuck , I gotta drag my ass outta bed. More painting at the Sistine Chapel. Wish that shit was done so I could get to a fuckin' beach. — Kristen Ashley