I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
#quotes #janet-fitch

U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
#quotes #henry-paulson #economy #united-states #china

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
#proverbs #welsh-proverbs #grandchildren

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
#quotes #jose-mourinho #games

I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
#quotes #evelyn-glennie #travel #home

Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
#quotes #mark-mckinnon #military #war

I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
#quotes #sylvia-plath #purity #feminism

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #helping

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
#quotes #pierre-corneille #doom

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
#quotes #jean-michel-basquiat #painting #anger

I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
#quotes #yelawolf #music

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
#quotes #garson-kanin #night #thinking

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
#quotes #logan-pearsall-smith #self

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
#quotes #dan-rather #politics #democrat #dance

I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
#quotes #hunter-hayes #competition

When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
#proverbs #german-proverbs #teenage

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
#quotes #joan-armatrading #entertainment #talent #touring

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
#quotes #natalia-vodianova #beauty #hardship #childhood

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
#quotes #miles-teller #schooling #education

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
#quotes #young-buck #world

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
#quotes #illinois-jacquet #music

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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #ignorance

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
#proverbs #french-proverbs #disease #medicine #doctor #fear