23228 Quotes & Sayings

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work. — Mignon McLaughlin

I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took. — Kim Edwards

The purest white seems stained. — Laozi

I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages. — David Gemmell

I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things. — Marcia Gay Harden

Sometimes I'm a spiritual wimp and a whiner. — Lori Hatcher

Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time. — Karen Tei Yamashita

Something had gone horribly wrong at my birth, so my father would never have his little soldier, Mom would never have her home filled with tiny scampering joy, and we each clutched our guilt very privately. — Edward Fahey

Sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question. — Daniel Kahneman

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world. — Mother Teresa

I was born with a reading list that never ends. — Maud Casey

I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things that have rambled and know not the way. — Marcus Aurelius

It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live. — David A. Embury