In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness? ROBIN HOBB The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of ... LIVY Sweetness is not in itself unhealthy, we simply eat only the most unhealthy kind of sweetness. GIULIA ENDERS I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything. HOLLY LYNN PAYNE Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love whi... JIM ELLIOT Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. GLENN BECK As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start ... STEPHEN KING There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all. GERTRUDE STEIN when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes onl... WHY THE LUCKY STIFF I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. KAHLIL GIBRAN And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. KAHLIL GIBRAN Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhi... EDWARD HOAGLAND I say, 'Why not' to everything. RUSSELL WESTBROOK Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours... GARY F EVANS... When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue?
And where is the violet's beautiful blue?
Does aught... JOHN BYROM There would be a very nice small book in it about another time and era in America, a kind of sweetne... DAVID HALBERSTAM Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand. STEPHEN KING Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light. KATE DICAMILLO When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we se... CHINUA ACHEBE The preacher must have, "bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, indepe... E.M. BOUNDS It may well be that we go in different phases in different places. There is no reason why we would h... HAZEL BLEARS She had the brashness of her comedy, but in her personal life there was such a sweetness. Sweetness,... MERV GRIFFIN The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Without adversity, we will not have seen the sweetness of God’s splendid. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing o... RUTH RENDELL Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k... ANNIE DILLARD Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k... ANNIE DILLARD I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To ... ANTON CHEKHOV If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal? BEN STEIN The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness wh... JANE AUSTEN I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you wa... MARK LAWRENCE What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end ARTHUR BAER If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. ARTHUR 'BUGS' BAER If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. BUGS BAER No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en... STEPHEN KING I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape at... STEPHEN KING Stephen King was rejected 30 times before he finally gave up on getting his first book Carrie publis... LORI R TAYLOR Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges. STEPHEN KING Why did you give me a freedom for which I was unfit? Why did you stop teaching me? If you wished it,... LEO TOLSTOY If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me... BERT WHITNEY If I traveled to the end of the rainbow - As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell ... BERT WHITNEY If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me... EDWARD KOCH Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew! MALCOLM GLADWELL I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted ... OSCAR WILDE He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, is free from fear and free from sin, w... FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER This light called Sweetness now belongs to heaven and to the ages. Thank God for Sweetness. JESSE JACKSON To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... The state ... said those resources would be here at noon. That did not happen. They began arriving l... CARL FOWLER God has a reason why he doesn't show us all his plans for our lives, if he shows us the plans he wil... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE I believe we would miss an opportunity if we did not take a real good look at why there is an absenc... TERRY ALLEN Such is the passage, x. 14, where, after giving an account that the sun stood still upon Gibeon, and... THOMAS PAINE There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why d... JOE L. WHEELER Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. MARK STRAND Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT And some of our American shareholders asked us if we would consider it and we certainly saw no reaso... CLIVE BEDDOE Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable? FRANCIS CHAN Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm not ... SAYED KASHUA Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER The sweetness of doing nothing. ELIZABETH GILBERT The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. BIBLE We enjoy traditional music, ... but we like the stuff that is a little bit challenging and edgy. You... CHRIS FRANTZ In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came ... ALBERT CAMUS Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnis... JONATHAN SWIFT Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its soure. THOMAS PERCY To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an
interminable tedious sweetness. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Sweet meat must have sour sauce. BEN JONSON More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the h... BIBLE The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. CHARLES CHURCHILL Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so lost for y... DAVE MATTHEWS BAND The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prev... MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light. MATTHEW ARNOLD Sweets to the sweet! Farewell. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So i... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile. RICHARD RODGERS The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light MATTHEW ARNOLD There's a sweetness to it. DAVID ROCKWELL The salt in the cookie is a plus, and it offsets the cloying sweetness of the cream a little. KATE JANSEN Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY If the storm direction has not changed, I see no reason why people would get panicky about this. We'... ROB LAUGHLIN Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? STEPHEN KING If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me... ED KOCH I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King. CLIVE CUSSLER If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER If God did not want me to be aldulterous, why did he make all these gorgeous women? HERMAN VAN VEEN Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender. SEBASTIAN FAULKS I did that girly little sighing thing you do when you can't handle all the sweetness anymore and bit... SHELLY CRANE I'm not missing any starts. No way. If I was going to miss a start, it would be (Sunday). Why am I s... BARRY ZITO The sweetness of taste of the truth. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if y... ANNIE DILLARD
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