Devastatingly Pretty Quotes & Sayings

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors. — Gautama Buddha

When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from dot number 1 to dot number 2 and so on. Most of all, I loved the moment when the chaotic sprinkle of dots resolved itself into a picture.
That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble. — Franny Billingsley

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm. — Kazuaki Tanahashi

I've been in a long-distance relationship for years," Abe said.
"It's really challenging."
"With who?"
"With whom. And with you, Featherstone. I'm in a relationship
with you, but you're a long distance from being in a relationship with
me back. — John Green

If there is anything our culture desperately needs to learn about the morality of food production, it is that carrots can be grown using methods devastatingly destructive and deeply immoral--monoculture, herbicides, insecticides, destruction of habitat by plowing to the ditch banks, fill in the blanks--and beefsteaks can be produced in a way that protects and nurtures the soil and the total fabric of life, a pretty moral thing to do, in my mind. — Harvey Ussery

I'm doing pretty well. If you don't get married, you can't get divorced. Why couldn't we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through? — Adam Levine

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y. — Beth Broderick

Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The United States is a pluralistic society. To protect that pluralism and the rights of all Americans, of whatever faith they may practice, religious-liberty laws are good policy. Liberals committed to tolerance should embrace them. — Edwin Meese

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose. — Michel De Montaigne

He is truly great in power who hath power over himself. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Let me give you some counsel, bastard," Lannister said. "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."
Jon was in no mood for anyone's counsel. "What do you know about being a bastard?"
"All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes. — George R R Martin

She used to look forward to changing in the locker room when other girls stole shocked glances at her emaciated body last spring. Now they would look at her and think she was fat
just as fat as all the other girls, maybe even fatter. Nothing separated her from the parade of thunder thighs trooping up the stairs from the locker room to the gym. — Steven Levenkron

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo. — Woody Allen

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television. — Dan Butler

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it. — Gary Lineker