Eavesdropping Senior Quotes & Sayings

No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity — Taylor Swift

You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to prove that. — Sharon Salzberg

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again. — Margaret Mead

I thought you weren't going to ever talk about it."
"How can I help it?"
"You'll lose it if you talk about it."
"I just talk around it. You know I feel rather damned good, Jake."
"You should."
"You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch."
"Yes."
"It's sort of what we have instead of God."
"Some people have God", I said. "Quite a lot."
"He never worked very well with me."
"Should we have another Martini? — Ernest Hemingway,

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. — Edward Gibbon

He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:
So I, to find a mother and a brother,
In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself. — William Shakespeare

Confidence is one of the sexiest things in life, — Perfect Self

See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens. — Miles Davis

It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life. — R.C. Sproul

Harder still was the pretense her studies demanded: the need to dissemble, to parrot her professors' orthodoxies, to feign interest in theories that were of no use to her. — John Wray

Every kid wants approval, but my desire to be well liked was central to my personality. — Mindy Kaling

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. — Seth Godin

With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes. — James Baldwin

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him. — Ann Brashares