1911 1918 Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't let you believe we'd keep going, when we'd already lasted too long. — Susan Choi

She took his hand, squeezed it, held it, and then, all at once, she let it drop. But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. — Philip K. Dick

Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom. — Francine Rivers

There's nothing I wouldn't do for you. — Steph Nuss

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them. — Oprah Winfrey

I feel it's easier to sit in the backseat and go, "Oh, yeah, let's go there." You're not worried about getting to the destination. But the guy or the woman who has to get you to the destination is worried about a lot of other things, so my job as an actor is to try as many things as possible, be as open as possible, listen, and keep my heart open. — Susan Sarandon

Your garbage, transformed, is your gift. — Yehuda Berg

Beautiful and rare Aurora,
In the heavens thou art their Flora — Christopher Pearse Cranch

I don't know what he meant by 'they're after me.' And then I said, 'You know, Bobby, I'm here for you. If you need any help, give me a call.' And then he did call me about a week later, and wanted to know if I had a good attorney. — Tommy Bond

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still. — Rashida Jones

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) — J.M. Coetzee

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. — Meryl Streep

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself. — Henry Ossawa Tanner

When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust. — Owl City