Top 100 Payne Quotes

#1. She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.

Roman Payne

#2. Don't mistake a desperate desire to salve your conscience for bravery,

Catherine Jones Payne

#3. The worst thing a boy could do to a girl is ignore her while she is loving you with all her heart

Liam Payne

#4. I thought I'd won the match when she'd fallen into my arms, heart and all. The truth was, she'd beaten me. Snatched my soul and shattered all the lies I'd built around me to keep the pain of connecting at bay.

Lyla Payne

#5. With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.

Roman Payne

#6. If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I won't waste my breath trying to prove the fact that I'm your equal."
"I am the King, you realize."
"And I'm the daughter of a deity, motherfucker.

J.R. Ward

#7. You have to live hardcore to be hardcore.

Liam Payne

#8. God is as real as a station wagon.

Peggy Payne

#9. I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

George Payne Rainsford James

#10. It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

Robert Payne

#11. The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Holly Lynn Payne

#12. As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

Alexander Payne

#13. Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride.

Roman Payne

#14. It had to be her heart, too, or I lose. Sex and feelings. Shame and regret. That was the game.

Lyla Payne

#15. According to the yoga tradition, each person is allotted a certain number of breaths, and after you exceed this number, your time on earth is finished. People who breathe hurriedly and shallowly use up their allotment of breaths quickly, but if you breathe slowly and consciously,

Larry Payne

#16. Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.

Roman Payne

#17. After the long time of going together and the mutual trust that had grown out of that time, Payne had occasion to realize that no mutual trust had grown out of the long time they had gone together.

Thomas McGuane

#18. Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Cynthia Payne

#19. We made love outdoors
Without a roof, I like most,
Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and gushing of dew.

Roman Payne

#20. Yes, in a woman, looks are the most important thing... But it's not how she looks 'to' us, so much as 'how she looks at' us.

Roman Payne

#21. The difference between an idealist and a fanatic is the idealist is only 90% sure he's right.

Jim Payne

#22. I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

Cynthia Payne

#23. Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.

Liam Payne

#24. Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

Liam Payne

#25. She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.

Roman Payne

#26. To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

Edgar Alwin Payne

#27. Dreams are like stars. you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.

Liam Payne

#28. When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.

Alexander Payne

#29. That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

Payne Stewart

#30. Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

Payne Stewart

#31. We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine.
If breath of sun does belch its heat,
we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

Roman Payne

#32. Women are extraordinary creatures!

Roman Payne

#33. Life mixes tones all the time.

Alexander Payne

#34. The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'

Alexander Payne

#35. People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Payne Stewart

#36. I'm not perfect.
Never have been.
Never will be.

~ Louis Tomlinson

Louis Tomlinson

#37. Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

Alexander Payne

#38. I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

Liam Payne

#39. Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek more accurate solutions, etc.

Ruby K. Payne

#40. It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.

Leanne Payne

#41. Love sees a need and tries to meet it, rather than seeing a problem and doing nothing about it - or, worse, complaining about it. Another

Tony Payne

#42. Vas happening Selene?

Liam Payne

#43. When one lives in the midst of a lie long enough, it becomes a part of you whether you want to rationally accept it or not.

Leanne Payne

#44. Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

Alexander Payne

#45. Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned ... before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she drifted away. But she would come back to him. One way or the other, she would not leave her twin ever again.

J.R. Ward

#46. If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

Alexander Payne

#47. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

Roman Payne

#48. He was no god, he was just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.

Roman Payne

#49. I don't believe there are readers and non-readers; I believe there are those who've found the right books and those who haven't--yet!

C.C. Payne

#50. I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

Payne Stewart

#51. I met Anne in the autumn ... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to kiss faraway Demeter's supple breasts - to set lips to her travel-swollen eyes. They seek goddesses, but I desired only Anne.

Roman Payne

#52. The Jews got together to protect him. And I'll prove it.

Roy Payne

#53. You can't be responsible for anyone but you, Cole. We all make our own decisions, and pay our own consequences. You can love someone, but you can't fix them. You deserve me because I say you do, not because other people think so or don't.

Lyla Payne

#54. I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

Liam Payne

#55. I've seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.

Roman Payne

#56. Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

Robert Payne

#57. And that's when you learned, your top fund-raiser was a murder suspect.

Roy Payne

#58. I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn't care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

Roman Payne

#59. The U.S., out of all places, is just absolutely incredible.

Liam Payne

#60. If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

Rob Payne

#61. I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

Charles Payne

#62. All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Roman Payne

#63. The thought of losing rekindles the joy of having.

Tom Payne

#64. May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

Roman Payne

#65. They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

Alexander Payne

#66. I'm doing a two-hour show every day, so you can eat what you want.

Liam Payne

#67. In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it also inspires a sense of awe, a glimpse of what is still "un-Googleable" ... life's mystery and magnitude.

Kim John Payne

#68. You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart
Is Breathing For this
Moment in Time
I'll Find the words to say
Before You leave me Today

One Direction

#69. I would do anything for you. Anything.
With that, he pushed his way out ... and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase.
Actions did mean more than words.

J.R. Ward

#70. The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness,
Her soul was taken from sanity.

Roman Payne

#71. If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

Alexander Payne

#72. Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

Robert Payne

#73. I'm so sorry we'll never meet," she whispered, laying her posy atop the late Lord and Lady Payne's grave. "But thank you. For him. I promise, I'll love him as fiercely as I can. Kindly send down some blessings when you can spare them. We'll probably need them, from time to time.

Tessa Dare

#74. I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

Liam Payne

#75. When you first open Niall [Horan]'s wallet, the first thing you see is a picture of Justin Bieber and a picture of us.

Liam Payne

#76. Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.

Alexander Payne

#77. [As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

Roman Payne

#78. Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

Cynthia Payne

#79. I watched him with wonder like the stars watch the moon, falling in love with every crescent, dark side, and dream.

Piper Payne

#80. Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.

Roman Payne

#81. Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.

C.D. Payne

#82. The soul is restored through union with God.

Leanne Payne

#83. It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

Liam Payne

#84. A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

Roman Payne

#85. I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

Alexander Payne

#86. On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It's not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.

Liam Payne

#87. you'll know you're hitting a groove when grocery shopping becomes less stressful and more focused (you actually have a list and no real reason to veer from it).

Kate Payne

#88. I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.

Alexander Payne

#89. For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

Payne Stewart

#90. The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

Robert Payne

#91. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

Alexander Payne

#92. This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

Payne Stewart

#93. I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.

Cynthia Payne

#94. I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.

Alexander Payne

#95. I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

Alexander Payne

#96. When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.

Alexander Payne

#97. Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

Roman Payne

#98. I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

Payne Stewart

#99. When we appear to be "more a loser than a victor" on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

Tom Payne

#100. With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Roman Payne

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