Verdean Gardens Quotes & Sayings

I'm protecting what's mine."
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"I'm not yours," I said.
"You're welcome to think that but it doesn't change the fact that you are. — Kristen Ashley

Well, you know what happens to lovers: whenever they see a lyre, a garment or anything else that their beloved is accustomed to use, they know the lyre, and the image of the boy to whom it belongs comes into their mind. — Plato

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control! — Napoleon Hill

Don't worry, nothing is under control. — Arik Zeevy

I don't care if it takes you five years of doing nothing at all; I don't care if you decide after five years that what you really want is to be a bricklayer or a mechanic or a merchant seaman. Don't you see what I'm saying? It's got nothing to do with definite, measurable talents - it's your very essence that's being stifled here. — Richard Yates

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on. — Kate Bush

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it. — Amy Chua

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. — Margaret Heffernan

But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see each other, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never looking inside. — John Green

I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes. — Bette Midler

Old Molotov was asked if he dreamed about Stalin: "Not often but sometimes. The circumstances are very unusual. I'm in some sort of destroyed city and I can't find a way out. Afterwards, I meet HIM ... "1 — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand. — Gloria Gaither

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first. — Nicole Krauss