27616 Quotes & Sayings

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends. — John Irving

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock. — Aeschylus

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having. — George S. Clason

Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen. — William Finnegan

I love 'Les Mis' so much, like, since I was younger; I saw it when I was like, you know, 10, and I've seen it almost 18 times. — June Diane Raphael

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry. — Daniel J. Boorstin

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life. — Michael Faraday

I want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver — Ellen Wittlinger

This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed. — William Shakespeare

Why do I do such things.
I hope the answer is that I embrace life with abandon. But I fear the truth is that I'm irresponsible. — Bill Callahan

The four colorful people - and colorless Tsukuru Tazaki. — Haruki Murakami

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende