Valentine Day Waste Of Money Quotes & Sayings

Every happiness is a bright ray between shadows, every gaiety bracketed by grief. There is no birth that does not recall a death, no victory but brings to mind a defeat. — Geraldine Brooks

Despairingly she looked all round. She was completely encircled by the tremendous ice walls, which were made fluid by explosions of blinding light, so that they moved and changed with a continuous liquid motion, advancing in torrents of ice, avalanches as big as oceans, flooding everywhere over the doomed world. Wherever she looked, she saw the same fearful encirclement, soaring battlements of ice, an over-hanging ring of frigid, fiery, colossal waves about to collapse upon her. Frozen by the deathly cold emanating from the ice, dazzled by the blaze of crystalline ice-light, she felt herself becoming part of the polar vision, her structure becoming one with the ice and snow. As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead; she resigned herself to the triumph of glaciers and the death of her world. — Anna Kavan

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight. — Kim Edwards

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good. — John Foster Dulles

Anything worthwhile is opposed. — Michael Hyatt

He spent the afternoon watching the indicator light turn from red to orange to green and thought about how useless it was to be angry at anybody about an abstract principle ... How could any idea that drives a man away from the people who love him be considered sound? — Ryan Boudinot

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.' — Seth MacFarlane

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best. — Ira Glass

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. — Friedrich Schiller

The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short. — John Shimkus

The world will give you relief once ina while, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, were somebody dabs mrecy on your beat-up life. — Lily Owens