22 quotes found
“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In busi...”
“Right now though, there is little that concerns me more than the impending assault on the human rights and equality of women and the pink community in South Africa. Right now there are events afoot...”
“Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your se...”
“What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life.”
“We keep waiting for that amazing thing to happen in the future that will be the key to our happiness. But this is it. Right now. Life continues to be a series of right nows. So learn to love right ...”
“A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.”
“It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.”
“It takes effort and concern to really think about things.”
“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
“Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said ...”
“A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be for...”
“Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns.”
“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale,Tears our best hopes away, the wounded HeartExhausted, leans on all that can impartThe charm of Sympathy; her mutual wailHow soothing! never can her w...”
“I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me.”
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
“Money can't buy love, but money can reprove one's care, especially when there is little to give in its efforts to help.”
“The thing about Americans, she said, is that youre very concerned about everything all the time.”
“I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wond...”
“Worrying is a full-time job -- I wish it paid better!”
