Quotes About Sweetness

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams. -From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin

Por tu expresión, Nynaeve, habría pensado que estás furiosa, pero sé que es tal tu dulzura que la gente te pide que remuevas su té con tus dedos.

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams

You don't need to explain anything to me, Karl. I trust that you were a gentleman. And then he added, Or at least I trust that you were a gentleman to as high a degree as she wanted you to be. I was a boy once too. No matter who is in power, I never want you thinking it's wrong to desire a girl's attention. That is life's greatest sweetness. I would never want to deny you that joy.

light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the

There's something taking about her, conceded Miss Cornelia. You never see her but she's laughing, and somehow it always makes you want to laugh too. She can't even keep a straight face in church. Una is ten—she's a sweet little thing—not pretty, but sweet. And Thomas Carlyle is nine. They call him Carl, and he has a regular mania for collecting toads and bugs and frogs and bringing them into the house.

Anne always said that Esme Dalley had an iron will under all her sweetness and the doctor had a great deal of respect for the intuition of his wife.

Susan Baker and the Anne Shirley of other days saw her coming, as they sat on the big veranda at Ingleside, enjoying the charm of the cat's light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the old, mellow, red brick wall of the lawn. Anne

Susan Baker and the Anne Shirley of other days saw her coming, as they sat on the big veranda at Ingleside, enjoying the charm of the cat's light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples

The characteristic sweetness of much American cooking was also established during these years, as cooks relied more and more on the blandness and general acceptability of sugar as a flavoring.

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn't complicated by much in the way of thought.

Now she smiles as if I'm her favorite chocolate bar. "And I love you, Jordan.

Cuteness should be preserved.

My birthday cake was her latest project because it was not from a mix but instead built from scratch- the flour, the baking soda, lemon-flavored because at eight that had been my request; I had developed a strong love for sour. We'd looked through several cookbooks together to find just the right one, and the smell in the kitchen was overpoweringly pleasant. To be clear: the bite I ate was delicious. Warm citrus-baked batter lightness enfolded by cool deep dark swirled sugar.

In an earlier chapter I mentioned recent research which has shown that the preference for sweet and fruity odours falls off dramatically at puberty, when there is a shift in favour of flowery, oily and musky odours. The juvenile weakness for sweetness can be easily exploited, and frequently is.

It was the most beautiful sweet roll Bee had ever seen. A flawless circle, puffy from rising, it was studded with raisins and drizzled with pink icing. She could feel the hunger rake its claws along her stomach lining as she gazed at it.

Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.