Almudena Grandes Quotes & Sayings

You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. — Richard Martin Stern

Insight into the origin of a work concerns the physiologists and vivisectionists of the spirit; never the aesthetic man, the artist! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes the Lord wants us to fight, but sometimes he wants us to surrender. Surrender can require a lot more courage than fighting. — Sarah Sundin

HE DIDN'T RENT Hairspray or Harold and Maude. A few minutes after Sam left, after standing dumbly for a while in the Hs, Lincoln decided he didn't feel like going home anymore. He didn't feel like sitting still or being quiet. He left the Blockbuster empty-handed and stopped just outside to toss Sam's business card into the trash. — Rainbow Rowell

Your actions, not your feelings, speak the truth of your intent." Richard — Terry Goodkind

I'm your best friend ... You've just forgotten. My fault, I know. I can help you remember. — Samantha Young

To be loved, be lovable." - Ovid — Zig Ziglar

Just one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot? — John Wayne

When you were twenty, you accepted yourself, flaws and all. Then disenchantment set in. By the time you were thirty your tolerance was wearing thin. You weren't entirely trustworthy, and you knew you were prone to compromise. Already the future was receding, the bright dreams were slipping below the horizon. By now you're a stage set, one push and the whole thing could collapse at your feet. At times you feel like you're living someone else's life, in a strange house you've rented by accident. The 'you' you've become isn't your real self. — J.G. Ballard

Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed) - Gandalf came by. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian. — Alan Feduccia

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Some were taking this or that nervine cure-all, but the best nervine for a man who is not absolutely past repair, is to break away entirely from his calling or greed and camp out on the sea shore ... and patiently wait for the return of good health. James Bradley — Jennifer Michael Hecht