Sorrow Woods Quotes

#1. The similarity between space and time is limpid enough that we routinely use space to represent time in calendars, hourglasses, and other time-keeping devices. And the cognitive similarity also shows up in everyday metaphors where spatial terms are borrowed to refer to time.

Steven Pinker

#2. I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

Bill Gates

#3. I can't just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids.

Pete Sampras

#4. Games can sometimes be fun."
He smiled and lifted his wineglass. "A toast."
She lifted hers. "To dangerous games." He smiled.
"To winning." She clinked her glass against his.

Zoe Forward

#5. In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt
if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful.

Tahir Shah

#6. Don't let your problems become your obsession.

Debasish Mridha

#7. The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel.

George Carlin

#8. I died a thousand deaths of sorrow and lay down in the woods to die

Morrissey

#9. We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

Yvette Nicole Brown

#10. The woods are never solitary
they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.

L.M. Montgomery

#11. Ultimately I found my community by pursuing what I loved: writing, acting, art, coffeehouses.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#12. She nods. "We have five knives, two guns, and a big hole."
I look up into her innocent blue eyes and try not to smile. "Erm, okay."
"If you do anything bad, I will shoot you and put you in the hole."
Aah. Now I see why she was rattling off the inventory.

Beckie Stevenson

#13. It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#14. Ssh," he almost whisperes. "I heard you Serena." He snakes his arm around my back and rougly pulls me into him. "I get that I scare you and that you don't really like me. I understand that's how you feel, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to accept it.

Beckie Stevenson

#15. I stare at him and the way his clothes make his face look paler and his eyes two shades darker than when I last saw him. He doesn't seem real. How can a boy look so magical and interesting, yet utterly terrifying at the same time?

Beckie Stevenson

#16. My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

Paul Merton

#17. The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created

Walter Bagehot

#18. I've always wanted to work with Sean Connery - there's something about his style, and his calm, cool demeanor that I find intriguing.

Kelsey Chow

#19. When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at the university; my law enforcement career. Sitting on some boards. All the things I did before.

Richard Carmona

#20. Don't tell me what I won't do Serena, because when it comes to you, I seem to be breaking all of my own rules

Beckie Stevenson

#21. I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.

Nicole Krauss