Sweet Abandon Quotes

#1. An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Rod Laver

#2. My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.

Walter Murch

#3. The smell of her hair lingered just out of reach of his memory and left him with a nervous hum resonating throughout his body like a child forced to sit in church while the sun was shining outside on a perfectly good summer's day.

Erik Tomblin

#4. Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child.

Jude Deveraux

#5. Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Larry McMurtry

#6. Look for strength in unexpected places.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#7. Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Luc De Clapiers

#8. I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.

Stephen King

#9. We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

Beth Moore

#10. The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.

Sadhguru

#11. Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

Jack Kornfield