824 Divided Quotes & Sayings

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life. — Raymond Chandler

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait. — Dorothy Richardson

A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!
While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev — Tom Clancy

Montaigne says somewhere that in early youth the joy of life lies in the feet. — Willa Cather

I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it. — Amy Adams

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection. — Lemony Snicket

I'm glad you fought for me," she said.
"I'm glad you let me. — Cora Carmack

Hey bartender, hey man, look here. Give us one more, two more, three more glasses of beer. — Koko Taylor

We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual. — James M. Cain

Death doesn't give you control over anything. Death ends your control. — Thomm Quackenbush

Thankfulness is the attitude that perfectly displaces my sinful tendency to complain and thereby release joy and blessing into my life. — James MacDonald

You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side. — Tom Ford

Whereas we can say something sensible and polite to any stranger, it is only in the presence of the lover we wholeheartedly believe in that can we date to be extravagantly and boundlessly unreasonable. — Alain De Botton

When they found me, I had no name. Because I had no name, they decided to give me one. It's not my real name, but I have since grown a fondness to it. Now it is mine. — R.R. Washburn

Portentous change when History can appear
As the cool Advocate of foul device;
Reckless audacity extol, and jeer
At consciences perplexed with scruples nice!
They who bewail not, must abhor, the sneer
Born of Conceit, Power's blind Idolater;
Or haply sprung from vaunting Cowardice
Betrayed by mockery of holy fear.
Hath it not long been said the wrath of Man
Works not the righteousness of God? Oh bend, 10
Bend, ye Perverse! to judgments from on High,
Laws that lay under Heaven's perpetual ban
All principles of action that transcend
The sacred limits of humanity. — William Wordsworth