Betty Boop Birthday Quotes & Sayings

To grow up
is to find
the small part you are playing
in the extraordinary drama
written by
somebody else. — Madeleine L'Engle

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched. — Victor Hugo

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. — Dolly Parton

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody. — U.G. Krishnamurti

I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything. — Thaksin Shinawatra

Affiiction makes God appear to be absent for a time, more absent than a dead man, more absent than light in the utter darkness of a cell. A kind of horror submerges the whole soul. During this absence there is nothing to love. What is terrible is that if, in this darkness where there is nothing to love, the soul ceases to love, God's absence becomes final. — Simone Weil

It wasn't easy to understand how the love between two other people could diminish you. If those two people were still accessible to you, if they called you all the time, if they asked you to come into the city for the weekend as you'd always done, then why should you feel, suddenly, intensely lonely? — Meg Wolitzer

Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow. — Jane Jacobs

The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose. — Justin Trudeau

Go out there and row faster. — Roger Moore

The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment. — Tom Coburn

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing. — Harry Mathews