Whakatane Beacon Quotes & Sayings

I don't expect to be happy ever after. Just happier. — Mhairi McFarlane

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.] — Oscar Wilde

The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange. — Jack Kerouac

To the makying of bookes of gardenyng there is noe ende. — Thomas Hill

I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans. — Sophia Loren

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. — Francesco Guicciardini

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life. — Byron Katie

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies. — Andrew Sullivan

What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content - all the great things in life are done by discontented people. — Christopher Morley

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after? — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj