Blooming Orchid Quotes

#1. Relationships abhor a vacuum. Whenever one person refuses to mark and fight for their territory the other person will occupy the treasured ground either by default or by committing an act of aggression.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. God, I love you, I whisper, and come crashing back into my body with a suddenness that makes me gasp. I don't know what's more shocking
that I've called on the god I don't believe in, or that the lie I told felt so much like the truth.

Stacey Jay

#3. Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it.

Leonard Pitts

#4. We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Mike Rutherford

#5. David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.

David Halberstam

#6. Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only two hours of oxygen left before death. And it would be the right thing to do,

Alan Dershowitz

#7. Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#8. I believe the present matters
not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms
a false perspective. - Hilda Lee

Agatha Christie

#9. With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#10. You'll sacrifice for your child in ways you had never imagined. And they're not exciting and earth shattering ways, either. They're small, seemingly insignificant gestures that mean the world to them.

Heather McVea

#11. It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.

Johnny Hunt

#12. Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.

Richard Jefferies

#13. father shoves things into what

Anthony Doerr

#14. Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

Victor Ponta