Demise Def Quotes & Sayings

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul. — Annette Bening

On a table behind the dowager stood a vase containing three white lilies. The flowers were large and fleshy white, like little animals from an alien land that were deep in meditation. — Haruki Murakami

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be. — Henry Ward Beecher

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? — Bob Dylan

People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live in a country where nobody believes in anything any more. My whole life, I've been told: 'Western civilization? An old bitch gone in the teeth,' And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in. — David Hare

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel. — Ramez Naam

She's forgotten me. It's over. I don't want to see her again, and now I'll have to. I won't be able to help it. I'll have to sit back and just watch her ... live. Without me."
The ifrit shrugs. "Then I overestimated your feelings for her."
My jaw drops. "How dare you? Because I don't want to see that she's forgotten me?"
"No. Because nothing is really ever gone or forgotten. If she's a piece of you, and you of her, then memory is merely an obstacle - our power covers the memory, it doesn't erase it. And I should think, at least based on what I saw in your eyes last night, that it's an obstacle worth going up against. — Jackson Pearce

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead; it is the living only that has any right in it. — Thomas Paine

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy. — George F. Kennan

Free yourself from the people who cause you drama and poison your soul. You know who they are ... The first ones you thought of when you read this. They have to go. — Steve Maraboli

I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point. — Alain De Botton

Where there is darkness, there once was light. — Saim .A. Cheeda

Know what you really want. Know why you want it and how you will get it. That's the key! — Israelmore Ayivor

Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn't exist, that didn't matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it. — Tao Lin