12746 Quotes & Sayings

No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' " She lifted her eyes and her gaze stabbed him. "Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else. — Robin Hobb

And everything would be different, different. — Ismail Kadare

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention. — George Santayana

I would live the same life over if I had to live again,
And the chances are I go where most men go. — Adam Lindsay Gordon

You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now? — Laura Dave

The gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion. — Rebecca Solnit

If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile. — Milton S. Hershey

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice. — Werner Herzog

All the old poetry makes sense when you look at one whom you have loved. — Anne Rice

History is a novel for which the people is the author. — Alfred De Vigny