Waiving Preliminary Quotes & Sayings

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently. — Francis Of Assisi

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best. — Joe DiMaggio

I give myself to you and accept you as my own. — Melissa De La Cruz

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. — Stephen King

The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important. — Wayne Rooney

Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up. — George Pattison

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative. — Julian Casablancas

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. — Kirk Douglas

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar ... and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm. — Thomas B. Griffith

She hated him with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. — Emma Carr

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended. — Michael Michele

I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.' — Domhnall Gleeson

How can we understand what we've never experienced and adapt without making mistakes? — Melissa Landers