Calbre License Quotes & Sayings

Human nature is what we were put on this earth to rise above. K. Hepburn in The African Queen — Jan Karon

There is no need to outrun the lion. All that is necessary for a man to do in order to survive is to outrun his friends. — Michael Dobbs

Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy. — Marci Shimoff

It doesn't matter to me what you did, there are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential. What you've told me hasn't changed the way I think; I'll say again, I would be delegated to be your companion for the rest of your life-but you must think over very carefully whether I am the man for you or not. — Laura Esquivel

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school. — Craig Ferguson

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up. — Geoff Nicholson

Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste. — Leon Max

In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only a day to go, even by my standards. I spooned the apples into tiny bowls, tossed in some dried fruit and sprinkled them with crumble topping. Delicious, they said that night, scraping the bowls so clean they hardly needed to go in the dishwasher. The fools. — Helen Brown

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be. — Julian Of Norwich

I don't want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did. — Ai Weiwei

This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off their gravestones, and leave their dear names free from soil. — Charlotte Bronte

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before. — Frank Rizzo

She wouldn't disapprove of people who gave up philosophy or literary theory to do ordinary things." "Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them. — Alexander McCall Smith

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand. — Andrea Barrett

Do you know what you mean to me?" he murmurs, "If something happened to you, because of me ... " His voice trails off, his brow creasing, and the pain that flashes across his face is almost palpable. He looks so vulnerable - his fear very much apparent. — E.L. James