G.G. Collins Quotes
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.
She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.
Marriage is a lot like a roller coaster. You have extreme highs and you can have some pretty extreme lows, but the ride is worth it.
A successful business requires one simple thing: PASSION.
Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great
Setbacks are just stepping stones to great things.
Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
Life is truly too short to not be HAPPY and GRATEFUL today.
We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselves that freedom.
You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.
You have a... remarkable memory.""I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.
We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.""Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-
You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?""We have a very big bathtub.
To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.
If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change, . Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it's breathMark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow
I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing morethan to be in the moment-but which moment?Not that one, or that one, or that one,
all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.
Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who has come to see you off, to wave you into the dark waters beyond language?
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know, " Haymitch says.
It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.
hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home, " I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you, " he says.
Hello" and "good-bye" were a pair of bookends, propping up a vast library of blank volumes, void almanacs, novels full of sentiment I couldn't apprehend
I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.
You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.
It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.
Cookies. A pin. I'm getting all kinds of gifts today. Madge gives me one more. A kiss on the cheek. Then she's gone and i'm left thinking that maybe Madge really has been my friend all along.
He hates me more, " says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.