525 East Quotes & Sayings

This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent. — Doreen Valiente

No one want to be an imitation of another — Sunday Adelaja

Syn let out a tired breath. I'd never hit you, Cruel. I only fantasize about strangling you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened. — Winston S. Churchill

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.
[Mexico City concert, June 2011] — Chavela Vargas

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers! — Israelmore Ayivor

The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you're writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind. — Martin Naughton

But sometimes it swings just right and there's a moment of suspension when I can't feel it. The rope goes slack and the laws of physics give me one second of relief. I can laugh and smile and feel something else. But those same laws undo me, and when it swings back there's a sharp tug on my heart to remind me that I forgot. — Mindy McGinnis

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. — Orison Swett Marden

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are. — Cecelia Ahern

Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all ... We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart ... If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it. — Elizabeth Berg

Courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity. — Elizabeth Samet

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. — Hermann Hesse