I might not know every step of my journey, but standing still wouldn't accomplish a thing. Sometimes you just had to take a step, whatever the direction, and see what happened. —Jean Brashear in The Goddess of Fried Okra More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a man loves you, he is going to want to see you. You will not have to remind him to call, plan lunch or dinner dates because he'll be one step ahead of the game. —Leslie Braswell in Get the Guy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain. —Tess Gerritsen in The Surgeon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours. —Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies More about this quote Tags: love relationship trust care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison. —Debbie Macomber in The Trouble with Angels More about this quote Tags: love profundity comparison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How insulting is it to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own. —Jessica Valenti in Why Have Kids? More about this quote Tags: accomplishment feminism women parenting motherhood sexism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. —W. E. B. Du Bois More about this quote Tags: politics ignorance knowledge USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nearly one-half of all Americans are torsos. —Demetri Martin More about this quote Tags: humor USA statistics bodies anatomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At times he could be charming and gracious, which was what had made it so hard to leave him. His ability to be tender and loving was equal to his capacity to be deceptive and underhanded. He could rip out my heart and then be the first one to pick it up and hand it back to me. —Debbie Macomber in A Girl's Guide to Moving On More about this quote Tags: love deception charm tenderness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck. —Maya Banks in No Place to Run More about this quote Tags: reading books experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. —J. R. R. Tolkien More about this quote Tags: knowledge acquaintance welcome Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: humor knowledge youth lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness. —Isabel Allende in My Invented Country More about this quote Tags: sadness vice nostalgia tenderness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What's important is people. The people who love us, who need us, who make us feel emotion. That's what's important in life. —Helen Hardt in Possession More about this quote Tags: love life people emotion need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My old man used to say you could be dollar-poor but emotionally rich if you had one good friend. —Fern Michaels in The Guest List More about this quote Tags: friends money wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email