Caltabiano Ronald Quotes & Sayings

It's one thing to face great odds, but even the smallest struggle, if undertaken without hope, looms and swells with the fatal poisons of despair. — K.W. Jeter

It is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else — Marilyn Monroe

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid. — Cheryl Strayed

Sometimes, we want the best for our kids, and we push too hard. We keep aloof from them or we pressure them too much, we hide from them or we grab them with both arms. Either way we run the risk of pushing them out the door, of teaching them the wrong lessons, and of turning them into men we wouldn't want them to be. — David Klass

I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am. — Robert Barnes

He felt wretched at this point, he'd just told off Gandalf essentially, and Dumbledore's kindness was only making him feel worse. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid — Joni Mitchell

No matter who you are, you have a giant self. — Agapi Stassinopoulos

I could understand the moon leaning across a bar on skid row
and asking for a drink, but I couldn't understand anything about
myself,
I was murdered, I was shit, I was a tentful of dogs,
I was poppies mowed down by machine-gun fire
I was a hotshot wasp in a web
I was less and less and still reaching for
something, and I thought of her corny remark
a night or so ago:
You have wounded eyes. — Charles Bukowski

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? — Emile M. Cioran

I was shocked. A dying word, "shocked." Few people have been able to use it well since Claude Rains so famously said, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here," as he pocketed his winnings in Casablanca. But it's the only word for excitement and alarm of this intensity. — David Denby

Myron? My brain screeches to a halt. I've transferred to a school where they name kids Myron?! — Courtney Brandt