Finding Oneself Famous Quotes & Sayings

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke? — Robert Orben

It is perhaps the simplicity of his affection, the patience of his understanding and loyalty that makes him too easy to love, for his love is taken for granted by many, who give back nothing in return. — Claire North

So I learned that even after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He'd have laid up enough memories never to be bored. Obviously, in one way, this was a compensation. — Anonymous

A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known. — Justin Cronin

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it. — Samuel Beckett

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward. — Rodney Mullen

Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out? — Richelle Mead

Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you not only elevate yourself but also the person who bears you hatred. — Ralph Waldo Trine

The reality is that changes are coming ... They must come. You must share in bringing them. — John Hersey

There was a time when I didn't at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman. — Albert Camus