August 2026 Quotes & Sayings

The waking up was the worst. That slow, growing realization that you lived through it. That you were awake to go through it again. That your body was stronger than you thought. That there was so much more to be endured. — Jessica Gadziala

If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see. — Judy Greer

Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world. — Hal Borland

I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them. — Gregory David Roberts

I've actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration. — Lily Allen

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? — Orson Scott Card

Tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled — Walter Isaacson

He would do anything to avoid ageing and death...anything. — Mark Benjamin

He chose for his hero a youth nourished in dreams of liberty, some of whose actions are in direct opposition to the opinions of the world, but who is animated throughout by an ardent love of virtue, and a resolution to confer the boons of political and intellectual freedom on his fellow-creatures.
On Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam — Mary Shelley

Sometimes we're only born to die, my dear. But if that is what you're destined for - to die - then embrace it and don't be afraid when it comes — K. Weikel

I'm 100% natural. No silicon, no synthetic hormones or steroids, no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. — Jayde Scott

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start. — James Salter

I got to write most of everything I said. — R. Lee Ermey