Sweet Quotes - Page 6

• Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

  James Shirley

  Inspirational, Dust, Smell

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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• With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Thinking, Want

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• Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Drawing, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

  Coco Rocha

  Inspirational, Fashion, Humble

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Smell, Long

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• Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• The more complicated the order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a 'decaf grandee, half soy, half lowfat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet,' ooooh, you're a huge asshole.

  George Carlin

  Coffee, Light, Order

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• For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be — or no, already she was like that too; she was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity.

  Margaret Atwood

  Air, Sea, Identity

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim - people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us) - without assumption of superiority and power

  Leonard Sweet

  Religious, Jesus, Buddhist

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• If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Song, Laughter

  Henry Van Dyke, “If All The Skies”

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• Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Cute, Prayer

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• The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.

  Walter Russell Bowie

  Men, Two, Average

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• If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Paradise, Politics

  Song: Where Are You Tonight?, 1978

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• In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

  Bob Dylan

  Stars, Milk And Honey, Stripes

  Song: Angelina

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• They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

  William Golding

  Morning, Air, Sea

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.75, Penguin

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• 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.

  Paul Newman

  Differences, People, Evil

  "Fictional character: Chance Wayne". "Sweet Bird of Youth", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Light, Hair, Cake

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.24, Bantam

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• I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Two, Three, Potatoes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Character, Kids, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  History, Bombs, Way

  Quoted in In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: usaec Transcript of Hearing Before Personnel Security Board (1954)

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• People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secondly that I'm 'so sweet'. They seem surprised that they're not scared of me.

  Pink

  People, Tiny, Scared

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

  John Podhoretz

  Winning, Your Side, Victory

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• An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

  Jacques Prevert

  Food, Night, Orange

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• The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thank You, Blow, People

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