Quotes About Endearments

#1. There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.

Josh Billings

#2. I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint. He knew how much I hated words like love.

Jeff VanderMeer

#3. They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.

Anne Lamott

#4. A million possible endearments ran through his head. But he said, Help.

Robyn Carr

#5. They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both felt that, in many ways, they were one person?

Georges Simenon

#6. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Bertolt Brecht

#7. Shut up. Asshole. (Shahara) I live for your endearments. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Edmund Burke

#9. It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

James Ellis

#10. For an hour or two every Thursday, when Jalil came to see her, all smiles and gifts and endearments, Mariam felt deserving of all the beauty and bounty that life had to give. And, for this, Mariam loved Jalil.

Khaled Hosseini

#11. I'm not holding out a whole lot of hope for you," she snapped. "And quit calling me that. I liked it when I thought you loved me, but I'm not particularly fond of your endearments right now. Or you, for that matter.

Shannon MacLeod

#12. You are an irritating son of a bitch."
"Ah, ma petite, how can I resist you when you whisper such sweet endearments to me?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

Paul Rand

#14. Tell me, are you still hung up on that boy?' 'Excuse me?' Schuyler asked, holding a test tube. 'Nothing.' Kingsley shrugged innocently. 'If that's how you like to play it.

Melissa De La Cruz

#15. I just like being a regular person.

Jhene Aiko

#16. Sunrise to sunset, that's life, my darling.
I loved the way he said that, my darling. I liked it more because he rarely uses the expression as a term of endearment for Dick, he had terms of his own, this was mine and it made me level in some way.

Gillibran Brown

#17. Through grace we are helped not to stumble and through grace we know that we are being welcomed. What more can we ask?

M. Scott Peck

#18. The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

Lord Acton

#19. Live with your head in the lion's mouth.

Ralph Ellison

#20. He continued to lie there, like someone lying awake at four o'clock in the morning, unable to put his mind to rest, but unable to find anything to do with it.

Douglas Adams

#21. But I could kill a girl with my kiss. ( ... ) Want to die? ( ... ) Want to live forever?

C.M. Stunich

#22. When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.

Ben Marcus

#23. When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

Joel Salatin

#24. You're my only Duchess.

Kristen Ashley

#25. Your destiny is determined by your decisions.

Tony Robbins

#26. When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

St. Lucia

#27. Where's my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?

Laura Ingalls Wilder