Vanity might be a “sin” according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life’s allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days (G.M. Malliet)
Success is the progressive discovery of your assignment – Dr Lloyd Magangeni
Success is the progressive discovery of your assignment – Dr Lloyd Magangeni
G.I. humor is similar to cop humor
G.I. humor is similar to cop humor (Nelson DeMille)
What was it like to lose him?” Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome—said all at once
What was it like to lose him?” Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome—said all at once (Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure)
It’s funny. That feeling of home. It’s so temporary, like bathwater: the warmth eventually grows cold
It’s funny. That feeling of home. It’s so temporary, like bathwater: the warmth eventually grows cold. (K.M. Alexander, The Stars Were Right)
“Darcy was floating, soaring. Warrick’s kiss was sensual, carnal. It aroused her, inflamed her. His touch was just as wickedly delightful. His hands stroked her back, her butt, holding her tight, as if he couldn’t fathom releasing her. She never wanted the kiss to end. It was too good, too … perfect
“Darcy was floating, soaring. Warrick’s kiss was sensual, carnal. It aroused her, inflamed her. His touch was just as wickedly delightful. His hands stroked her back, her butt, holding her tight, as if he couldn’t fathom releasing her. She never wanted the kiss to end. It was too good, too … perfect (Donna Grant, Soul Scorched”)
The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness
The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness (Carl Jung)
No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especially of elderly gentlemen of dignity
No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especially of elderly gentlemen of dignity (J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth)
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years. (Gore Vidal)
In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it, all right
In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it, all right (Markus Zusak)