120 Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief - his reflexive hostility toward and misunderstanding of business and his reliable resort to left-wing fables about race relations. — Mona Charen

It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me. — Karine Vanasse

It need hardly be said that the qualities which filled Martin with the pangs of hero-worship were not altogether those which David's parents would have most desired. If he had had to earn his living, David would have been a serious problem. But, owing to the ill-judged partiality of an aunt, he had been independent for some years. So he lived in town and had hankerings for the stage and the cinema and broadcasting, and every now and then his looks and his easy manners and his independent income landed him in a job, though not for long. And, as Martin had dimly surmised, heaps of girls had been in love with him. When the Leslies wished that David would settle down to a job and stick to it, they never failed to remind each other that the house would not be the same if David were not there so often. Mr — Angela Thirkell

Sometimes we only bow but we
cannot stand
and we only know but we cannot understand. — Aram Seriteratai

I thought that probably I was worth more when I was younger. — Sarah Winman

I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me. — Rodney Dangerfield

The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung rhythms of earth and sky, weather and season. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. — Paul Klee

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction. — David Petraeus

It is astonishingly satisfying to look at him and think Closet Case, and know he can read my mind as he looks away flushed. All Mormons are gay, I believe. Rick is merely a further example. — Augusten Burroughs

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive. — Britta Phillips

Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place. (p.120) — Jeanette Winterson

But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment — Milan Kundera