Verene Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. — Pat Riley

Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons. — David Wong

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next. — Dave Grohl

A daily portion is all that a man really wants. We do not need tomorrow's supplies; that day has not yet dawned, and its wants are as yet unborn. The thirst which we may suffer in the month of June does not need to be quenched in February, for we do not feel it yet; if we have enough for each day as the days arrive we shall never know want. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love. — Gianna Beretta Molla

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt. — C.S. Lewis

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know. — Lisa Kleypas

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. — Piet Mondrian

See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Unbecoming or not, I dare say that if a harmonica chases away a suitor, he was no suitor at all in the first place. — Sarah Price

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind. — Pico Iyer

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now. — B.K.S. Iyengar

That's why the bran muffins and the colonoscopies. — Chuck Palahniuk

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for. — Dalton Trumbo