19e Eeuw Quotes & Sayings

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion. — Edna Ferber

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. — James Weldon Johnson

Let's say everyone has nine thousand things about themselves," Em had explained to Tab and Bridge in sixth grade, "and say two people fall in love because it seems like all their things match up. But what they don't know is that only like a thousand of their things actually match up. My mom says most people who get married don't even know those other eight thousand things about themselves yet. So it could happen to anyone. — Rebecca Stead

Get a really good coat that will last a couple of years and that you can't wait to put on when the weather starts to turn. — Amber Le Bon

I'm always happy to have a job. — Tommy Lee Jones

Please make this nation remember how futures are built — Mario Cuomo

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. — Clifford D. Simak

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years. — George Michael

Dreams are not to be converted into reality, that we know; we would not form any, perhaps, were it not for desire, and it is useful to us to form them in order to see them fail and to be instructed by their failure. — Marcel Proust

But learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die. So many of the finest men have put aside all — Seneca.

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world. - William Moulton Marston, March 1945 — Jill Lepore

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique. — Richard Attenborough

To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need
the two wings of emptiness and compassion.
From now on, let us use these two wings
to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from the first moment to the last. — H.G.Wells

Gratitude - practicing gratitude. "Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie — Jennifer Takagi