Epitomises Or Epitomizes Quotes & Sayings

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments. — Virginia Woolf

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination. — John Irving

I wished I could draw the way her broad-shouldered body threw a shadow on the moonpale dust. How brave she looked just then. — Janet Fitch

Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Do not focus on the problem. Pray for strength to persevere. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening. — Charles Manson

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well. — Donald Rumsfeld

Dammit woman, stop trying to beat me. I'll sue you for domestic violence. — Karen Mahoney

The tension of opposites:
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. — Morrie Schwartz.

For the first time, I had looked upon victory from the place of defeat, and because the victory was not my own, and I was apart from it, I felt it all the more. It was God's victory, the victory of the continuation of the world. It would bring me nothing, swell my fortunes not a bit. It was bitter, and I would always be outside, but never have I felt a deeper pleasure, never have I been more satisfied, for even if hardly anything was left of me, the world was full. And I was not the only one. A thousand men were on the train for seven hours, and in that time I do not believe a single word was spoken. — Mark Helprin

If you gain from a crime, you did it. — Seneca.