Ella Scott Fitzgerald Quotes & Sayings

Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment. — Sarah Dessen

He would behave in the same way, say the same things, give himself completely to anybody who came along, anybody and everybody who liked to appeal to him. It was despicable, a very insidious form of prostitution. — D.H. Lawrence

Weren't you always
distracted by expectation, as if every event
announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place
to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you
going and coming and often staying all night.) ... — Rainer Maria Rilke

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage — Albert Camus

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. — Karen Joy Fowler

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested. — E. M. Forster

The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant. — Simon Mainwaring

As we discussed in Chapter 7, we physicists still haven't found a mathematical structure that can describe all aspects of reality, including gravity, but so far, there's no indication that string theory or any of the other most actively pursued candidates for such a description are any less mathematical than quantum field theory. — Max Tegmark

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. — Publilius Syrus

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. — Madeleine Albright

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them. — Gary Cohn

May the strangers next door that you meet this morning become your brothers and sisters in the Lord this afternoon and go to the nations later this evening. — J.D. Payne

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress. — Arthur Balfour