Blotched Quotes

#1. But love isn't a career. It isn't a degree you earn or a formula you pull out of a textbook. It's bumpy and blotched and painful and completely irreplaceable. Aren't there times when it might be better to let go? Sometimes the best part of life grows out of what you have no say over.

Carol Cassella

#2. Wizened and white, with brown blotched on her face the size and complexity of unshelled peanuts, Midge had a jitter in her head that made her pew like a chicken trying to make up its mind what to peck.

John Irving

#3. His skin was blotched as a dying banana.

David Mitchell

#4. That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana.
This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.

Cassandra Clare

#5. In the days when the world begins to bleach and shrivel, and the sun is blotched with death. Socialist and Individualist, they'll all be a little dirt lodged deep in the granite wrinkles of the globe's countenance.

Clark Ashton Smith

#6. I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

Daphne Du Maurier

#7. Psychological complexity, character development, the killer line to end a scene, villains blotched with virtue, heroic characters speckled with villainy, foreshadow and backflash, artful misdirection.

David Mitchell

#8. The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end of their strings and come back to me" from the poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

Jay Woodman

#9. And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.

Laura Miller

#10. The statement "I'll always be your parent" is true in one sense, but not in another. You will always have that heritage, but you won't always have that responsibility. Your goal is a mutual affection between two adults, not a permanent one-up position.

Henry Cloud

#11. Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Walter Savage Landor

#12. Allow yourself to have a completely undefended experience of life, and allow the light of God to flow through your life freely, openly, and with renewed purpose. This is the essence of unconditional love.

Catherine Carrigan

#13. Colin "I'm just
I'm just a failure. what if this is it?
andI never do anything significant and I'm just a complete waste?"
Hassan sat up, with his hands on his knees. "See, this is why you need to believe in God.

John Green

#14. In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Carlos Ghosn

#15. Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

Rei Kawakubo

#16. Unless you're involved in the system of coercive force, with money alone you don't get power.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#17. Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#18. To tell the truth, though, I don't think I deserve your kindness. I'm trying my best to be a much better person, but things aren't going so well.

Haruki Murakami

#19. Good students pay attention to their teachers;
great students teach themselves.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. But it's the feeling of love that we love, not the person.

David Mitchell

#21. Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

Gary Weiss

#22. The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

Bruce Henderson