537 quotes found
“I think you're the kind of man a girl can count on. You just can't let go of losing your family. You can't let yourself love because you think your heart can't handle it . . . that something bad wi...”
“Was it me? Was I too cold? Too inexperienced? Not pretty enough? Not good enough in bed? And when disloyal, seed-sowing scum buckets slept with other girls, why did women look inward to find fault ...”
“It is no accident that narcissists and altruists often have a magnetic attraction to one another. Can you see how perfect the fit is? The altruistic feels the need to selflessly serve others and th...”
“He was like a jalapeo, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bite him.”
“All my years to this momentAll my roads to this wall.All my words to this silenceAll my pride to this fall.-Songs of Sapphique”
“Ii do not walk with alienation everywhere I go in the world. I have been to small taverns in rural Ohio, big city bars, San Francisco bath houses, and in all these have felt welcome and happy. But ...”
“Understandings not enough. Understandings from outside; merely a function of the mind. [. . .] To enter, thats the secret. To become the bridge, to crawl into its sap, to sway with it, to rot over ...”
“Vanishing cream for the mind, English writer Jeremiah Creedon calls it.It's beholding the mote in your brother's eye, says the Bible, while disregarding the beam in your own.Denial is refusing to l...”
“At the beach, fifty years later, the old man understands finally that much of what he disavowed in himself before recognizing its irretrievable value, most of the heartache he caused himself and th...”
“Okay", I breathed. "Then what will it take?" I was completely out of my element. Begging a girl to go on a date with me. This was fucked up.""Miss it."I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd...”
“At its best, leadership development is not an event. Its a capacity-building endeavor. Its a process of human growth and development.”
“Wait!" she cried, and she yanked away from him and gathered her heels and her ruinedpurse. She slid the shoes on and straightened her shoulders. "I will go as a lady should," she claimed bravely. "...”
“Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my...”
“If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are el...”
“Whats the difference? I asked him. Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?One is a choice, and one is not.”
“Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.”
“A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.If only I could remember ...”
“Moderation in war is imbecility.”
“Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.”
“Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.”
