Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Keats

The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!

John Keats

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.

John Keats

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

Juliet Marillier

I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.

Julie Garwood

Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You.

Joy Harjo

The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the wrong time, but then, you take a breath all the way from the center of the earth and blow. All that heartache is forgiven. All that love we humans carry makes a sweet, deep sound and we fly a little.

Joy Harjo

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

Justin Cronin

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

Joyce Giraud

I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.

Joyce Kilmer

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.

Pamela Anderson

Miley [Cyrus] is so sweet. In this generation - and I know because I have two teenage boys - they don't really have to care about things. It's kind of a desensitized generation. I'm so impressed that she's really vegan and outspoken about animal welfare.

Ouida

Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins ...

Ouida

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

Ouida

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

Oscar Peterson

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music.

Jung Chang

If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.

Joyce Meyer

God is working on your problem. Stay calm. Stay sweet. Stay out of fear and keep on keeping on.

Maria Semple

When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.

John Phillips

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

John Podhoretz

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

John Piper

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

Martin Millar

Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.

Martin Luther

Let whatsoever will or can befall me, I will surely cleave by my sweet Savior Christ Jesus, for in Him am I baptized; I can neither do nor know anything but only what He has taught me.

Martin Luther

Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!

Nick Lowe

So where are the strongAnd who are the trusted?And where is the harmony?Sweet harmony -'cause each time I feel it slippin away, it just makes me wanna cry:What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?

P. J. O'Rourke

A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.

Ovid

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

Ovid

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

Ovid

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Ovid

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

Ovid

Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate

Paul Newman

Sweet Bird of Youth”: “The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.

Masaharu Morimoto

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.