Jaffes Boutique Quotes

#1. The next morning, the earth was strewn with debris from the windstorm the night before. An audience of trees looked down on severed limbs cast about the ground, their hunched and beaten postures reminding me of a congregation of amputees gathered in the wake of a war.

John Burley

#2. There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

Alan Sugar

#3. A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral - everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.

Andrew Holleran

#4. The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

Antony Beevor

#5. Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

Steve Irwin

#6. Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

Margaret Fuller

#7. The heat was alive, predatory.

Dave Eggers

#8. We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

Silvia Cartwright

#9. I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

Malin Akerman

#10. Grey is the shade of life, like shadows.

Aporva Kala

#11. The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

B.F. Skinner

#12. A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113)

Prem Prakash

#13. Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

Walt Whitman