quotes about wanting someone you can

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ~John Burroughs



Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~Edward Abbey



I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself. ~Dennis Potter, 1978



Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990



I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. ~Oliver Goldsmith I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ~Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911



We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. ~Bill Vaughan



What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. ~Mark Twain



The power inside you is energy amplified. ~Claire Todae



A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I'm finding it simply can't compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. ~Homer



The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. ~Josh Billings



If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head. ~Harry Vardon



It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951



My body is a bulletin board, transmitting my condition. ~Terri Guillemets



A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history. ~Author Unknown



A knuckleball is a curve ball that doesn't give a damn. ~Jimmy Cannon



Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. ~John Mortimer, The Trials of Rumpole



There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life, and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. ~Jean de la Bruyere



Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ~Andre Gide