Pains And Shortness Quotes

#1. My mate is really, really weird.
She is also absolutely covered in brown, mushy clay.
She laughs and holds a large lump up to show it to me. Her mouth moves, and she makes enough noise to scare away a group of birds near the shore.
She is so, so strange.

Shay Savage

#2. The essence of proper bond selection consists, ... in obtaining specific and convincing factors of safety in compensation for the surrender of participation in profits.

Benjamin Graham

#3. I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.

Augusten Burroughs

#4. (Schoenberg himself, however, had no time for Adorno, complaining of his 'pomposity' and 'oily pathos',

Tom Service

#5. The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

Luc De Clapiers

#6. Do you know what really makes man free?'
'What?'
'Will, your own will, and it gives power which is better than liberty. Know how to want, and you'll be free, and you'll be master too.

Ivan Turgenev

#7. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

Stephen Richards

#8. The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

Mary Wilson Little

#9. Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

Lurlene McDaniel

#10. Spread your hate. It'll last a lifetime.

Conan O'Brien

#11. And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

Daniel Nathans

#12. Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

Ami Ayalon

#13. I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes.

Paul O'Grady

#14. Mew - mew. Mew." I jump back from her finger swipes. "I am fluent in pussy, but I have no idea what this fucking means, Georgia.

Pella Grace

#15. It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along.

Catherine Lacey

#16. A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.

Tonny K. Brown