1980s Cool Quotes & Sayings

If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself. — Lloyd Alexander

According to Darwin's theory, it's not the strongest who survive, but those who are the best adapted to their environment. Average people are the ones who survive and carry on the human race. — Svetlana Alexievich

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it. — Andrei Voznesensky

It teekles nozzing like Jock Torrance would like to teekle you, madame. — Stephen King

I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you
the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure. — Calvin Coolidge

This is where I will shine. This is where my father would have cried, clasped me to his bosom and muttered, "my daughter, my darling daughter. I know thee, because you are a reflection of me." (Don't ask me where I get this shit. I'm just THAT worldly.) — Nina Beck

I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something. — Mike Farrell

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. — Douglas Malloch

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.' — Chris Rock

The inward battle
against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past
is more terrible than outward battle. — Sivananda