359 Country Quotes & Sayings

The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. — Joe Abercrombie

If there's something you want, pursue it. Hope has power. Don't waste it on foolish things. — Laini Taylor

I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing. — Wanda Sykes

My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game. — Eric Bristow

Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin. — John Piper

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think. — Gary Shteyngart

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken. — Mason Cooley

You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems! — Kris Carr

I had the feeling Edward wasn't the kind of person anyone got used to. — Stephenie Meyer