6) "I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side
, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.","Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages."
7) "Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never allowed himself to form, the words he had felt, known, yet had not faced, had hoped to destroy by never letting them be said within his own mind. Now it was as sudden and shocking as if he were saying it to her ...Since the first time I saw you ...Nothing but your body, that mouth of yours, and the way your eyes would look at me, if ...Through every sentence I ever said to you, through every conference you thought so safe, through the importance of all the issues we discussed ...You trusted me, didn't you? To recognize your greatness? To think of you as you deserved - as if you were a man? ...Don't you suppose I know how much I've betrayed? The only bright encounter of my life - the only person I respected - the best
business man I know - my ally - my partner in a desperate battle ...The lowest of all desires - as my answer to the highest I've met ...Do you know what I am? I thought of it, because it should have been unthinkable. For that degrading need, which would never touch you, I have never wanted anyone but you ...I hadn't known what it was like, to want it, until I saw you for the first time. I had thought : Not I, I couldn't be broken by it ...Since then ...For two years ...With not a moments respite ...Do you know what it's like, to want it? Would you wish to hear what I thought when I looked at you ...When I lay awake at night ...When I hear your voice over a telephone wire ...When I worked, but could not drive it away? ...To bring you down to things you cant conceive - and to know that it's I who have done it. To reduce you to a body, to teach you an animal's pleasure, to see you need it, to see you asking me for it, to see your wonderful spirit dependent on the upon the obscenity of your need. To watch you as you are, as you face the world with your clean, proud strength - then to see you, in my bed, submitting to any infamous whim I may devise, to any act which I'll preform for the sole purpose of watching your dishonor and to which you'll submit for the sake of an unspeakable sensation ...I want you - and may I be damned for it!",Ayn Rand
8) "Do you love me, Westley? Is that it?’ He couldn’t believe it. ‘Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. If your love were—‘ ‘I don’t understand the first one yet,’ Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. ‘Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is the size of a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images just confuse me so—is this universal
business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we’re on the verge of something just terribly important.’ ‘I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids….Is any of this getting through to you, Buttercup, or do you want me to go on for a while?’ ‘Never stop.’ ‘There has not been—‘ ‘If you’re teasing me, Westley, I’m just going to kill you.’ ‘How can you even dream I might be teasing?’ ‘Well, you haven’t once said you loved me.’ ‘That’s all you need? Easy. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.’ ‘You are teasing now; aren’t you?’ ‘A little maybe; I’ve been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn’t listen. Every time you said ‘Farm boy do this’ you thought I was answering ‘As you wish’ but that’s only because you were hearing wrong. ‘I love you’ was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard.","William Goldman, The Princess Bride"
9) "Dimitri's voice snapped my attention back to him. ""That's Adrian Ivashkov."" He said the name the same way everyone else did. ""Yeah, I know.""""This is the second time I've seen you with him.""""Yeah,"" I replied glibly. ""We hang out sometimes.""Dimitri arched an eyebrow, then jerked his head back toward where we'd come from. ""You hang out in his room a lot?""Several retorts popped into my head, and then a golden one took precedence. ""What happens between him and me is none of your
business."" I managed a tone very similar to the one he'd used on me when making a similar comment about him and Tasha. ""Actually, as long as you're at the Academy, what you do is my
business.""""Not my personal life. You don't have any say in that.","Richelle Mead, Frostbite"
10) "Love should be treated like a
business deal, but every
business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.",Ayn Rand
11) Kindness is not a
business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.,"Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart"
12) What other people think and say about you is none of your
business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.,"Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart"
13) "It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding
business, often involving visits to hardware shops.And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.","Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married"
14) "I never ask a man what his
business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.",H.P. Lovecraft
15) "No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome
business I always found.",Samuel Beckett
16) "Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new
business casual.",Gerard Way
17) "If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in
business because we'd be cynical: ""It's gonna go wrong."" Or ""She's going to hurt me."" Or,""I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ."" Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.",Ray Bradbury
18) What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.,"Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in
business and in"
19) "Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.","Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in
business and in Life"
20) "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his
business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.","Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac"
21) "If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.","Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story"