28304 Quotes & Sayings

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't. — John Burnside

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal. — Donna Lynn Hope

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up. — Hudson Taylor

If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace. — Frank Fools Crow

It is incredible how rich you can get by not being perfect — Larry Hite

Losing and dying: it's the same thing. — Lance Armstrong

The dead can't change, but you can. — Caroline Leavitt

A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission. — Eleanor Perenyi

The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could. — Lauren Potter

The truth is only slightly less interesting than the story. — Kristopher Jansma

Every game has rules. Life's a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game! — Israelmore Ayivor

The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great. — Ned Colletti