Browbeating Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience. — W. Somerset Maugham

Alice loved in order to make up for her own insufficiencies, she searched in others for qualities she aspired to, respected but lacked. Her emotional needs were like a puzzle incomplete without a segment brought by another but the dimensions of the void altered in response to self-development, the piece which fitted at fifteen would no longer fit at thirty. The gap redrew its contours, and unless the puzzle-person kept up she would be left to divorce or awkwardly force the issue. — Alain De Botton

We don't need secrecy. — Jimmy Wales

I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football) — Bum Phillips

Smiles come best from those who weep. — Jalaluddin Rumi

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels. — John Irving

Lydia was like this all the time. I mean, the more I opened up to her, was a model patient or whatever, the icier she got, correcting pretty much everything out of my mouth and at least half of my silent actions as well. But the thing was that her near-constant admonitions actually made me like her more. I think because witnessing her administration of ten zillion rules and codes of conduct, all of which she applied to her own life, made her seem fragile and weak, in need of the constant protection of all those rules, instead of the opposite, the way I know that she wanted to be seen, the way I'd seen her when I first arrived: powerful and all knowing. — Emily M. Danforth

When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I am a performing artist; I perform admiration.
'Come with me', I want my poems to say. 'And do the same — Mary Oliver