3019 Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can't do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly. — Tom Douglas

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. — Lindsey Vonn

Here's a practice idea for right now. Choose one of those sets of phrases. ... Plan on taking some time to say those words over and over, as you would an ardent prayer. Set some time aside for this. (Fifteen minutes would be a good start.) Then sit comfortably. Later on, you can say these phrases walking about or doing chores or even riding your bike--but for now, just sit. That way you can look at the words.
"Say each phrase as if you expect it will feel different in your mind--they are slightly different wishes--and feel how each of them echoes in your mind and body. [pp. 72-73] — Sylvia Boorstein

I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn! — Suzanne Collins

The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view. — Steve Goodier

Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred — Aja Monet

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. — Tom Robbins

It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque, choosing a profession and practicing it, grabbing one's share of the common cake, eating it and saying, "It's delicious!" rather than following the gloomy path that I have trodden all alone; then I wouldn't be here writing this, or at least it would have been a different story. The further I proceed with it, the more confused it seems even to me, like hazy prospects seen from too far away, since everything passes, even the memory of our most scalding tears and our heartiest laughter; our eyes soon dry, our mouths resume their habitual shape; the only memory that remains to me is that of a long tedious time that lasted for several winters, spent in yawning and wishing I were dead — Gustave Flaubert

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith. — Bonnie Friedman

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with. — David Duchovny

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. — Ryan Gosling

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never. — Alice Munro

Good art is not universal. Bruce Willis is universal. — Sherman Alexie

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received. — Seneca The Younger