45202 Quotes & Sayings

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized. — Larry David

What we want is not always what we need. — Gena Showalter

You're barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them? — Sarah Rees Brennan

A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception. — Alain De Botton

The whole thing was silly," I said. "Please tell her there's no need to apologize. We set ourselves up for this. I was never going to be the guy in her head. And she was never going to be the girl in mine. And that's okay. Seriously. — Rachel Cohn

There was no reason to think she would survive this. So she was surprised to notice that she was happy. Not the powerful, irrational, and dangerous joy of a euphoric attack, but a kind of pleasure and release all the same. At first, she thought it was because there wasn't anyone there with her, guarding her, judging her. And that, she decided, was part of it. But more than that, she was simply doing what needed to be done without having to concern herself about what anyone else thought. Even Jim. And wasn't that odd? She wanted nothing in the world more than for Jim to be there - followed by Amos and Alex and a good meal and a bed at a humane gravity - but there was a part of her that was also expanding into the silence of simply being herself and utterly alone. There were no dark thoughts, no guilt, no self-doubt tapping at the back of her mind. Either she was too tired for that, or something else had happened to her while she'd been paying attention to other things. — James S.A. Corey

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. — Paul Tillich

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Television is such an evolving medium. — Chris Pratt

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy. — Gerhard Schroder

The thing about prayer is it always feels like an act of faith - it forms some fragile new chamber in your heart, something empty and vulnerable that bleeds loneliness if God never answers you. — Kelly Loy Gilbert

This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act. — Frederick Lenz

Everybody had to own and maintain a car. It was the biggest con in the Land of the Free. Well, along with the tobacco and alcohol industries, which also pumped out poison and had the nation in their grip. Pharmaceuticals and firearms would join the party in due course. — Chrissie Hynde

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner