No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you. —Tess Gerritsen in The Surgeon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. —Mark Ardis More about this quote Tags: learning learning knowledge specification project management Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose. —Myles Munroe in Waiting and Dating More about this quote Tags: purpose need fulfillment worth dating Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This was the kind of kiss you remembered when you were a very old lady with a very poor memory. —Valerie Bowman in The Untamed Earl More about this quote Tags: love memory romance kiss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. —James Thurber More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is an emptiness inside of me—a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again. —Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters More about this quote Tags: love mother motherhood emptiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view. —Jill Shalvis in The Sweetest Thing More about this quote Tags: success knowledge failure privacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: humor insanity self-confidence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day. —Carsen Taite in Beyond Innocence More about this quote Tags: mistakes people good redemption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing. —Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty change doubt impermanance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There it was. That fierce loyalty. He didn't have a clue how that was the most attractive thing about him. —Mariana Zapata in Under Locke More about this quote Tags: history certainty attraction loyalty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm being very selfish with myself right now. Taking care of me, feeding my own soul. —Debbie Macomber in A Girl's Guide to Moving On More about this quote Tags: self-care soul selfishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. —Linda Lael Miller in Creed's Honor More about this quote Tags: memory change nostalgia sweetness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: truth art emotion jokes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't know how I got to be thirty. I don't feel thirty, the way I felt so definitely nine, and thirteen, and twenty-one. —Rachel Khong in Vitamin More about this quote Tags: perception change age thirty 30 Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email