A Grateful Heart Open Doors Quotes & Sayings

Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians - we call them 'children'. — Hannah Arendt

No one has ever needed me before because I've never let anyone that far in. — Jessica Sorensen

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those. — Ben Affleck

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. — Jules Renard

Sometimes you think you love someone," I said, "but it's really just that they've become a habit. — Lisa Kleypas

There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back, you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air. — Steven Wright

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!' — Enid Bagnold

The greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person. — Geraldine Brooks

There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home. — Ann Shulgin

You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls? — Greg Ray

It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious. — Norbert Capek

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. — Steven Spielberg

I think it was only in that moment I believed she was dead, this girl I had never seen alive. I'll never be free of her. I wear her face; as I get older it'll stay her changing mirror, the one glimpse of all the ages she never had. I lived her life, for a few strange bright weeks; her blood went into making me what I am, the same way it went to make the bluebells and the hawthorn tree. But when I had the chance to take that final step over the border, lie down with Daniel among the ivy leaves and the sound of water, let go of my own life with all its scars and all its wreckage and start new, I turned it down. — Tana French

It's like a buffet, basically. Like this really expensive buffet, except also you have to eat all of what's on your plate or they expel you. So conceptually that's kind of fucked up. If that happened at real buffets, that would be incredible. If you were like, 'Hmm, this moo shu pork has kind of a chalky dirt taste,' and then some enormous Chinese guy is like, 'EAT IT OR WE WILL GIVE YOU AN F, AND ALSO WE WILL KICK YOU OUT OF THE RESTAURANT,' that just doesn't seem like a good business model. — Jesse Andrews

Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife. — Nancy Reagan