Frederick Leo Lionni Quotes & Sayings

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in. — Joelle Charbonneau

Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in. — Laura Bush

If you can not get the results you need yourself, then it is time to get help from somewhere else. — Nina Montgomery

A terrorist, I think, is simply another kind of pornographer. The pornographer pretends he is disgusted by his work; the terrorist pretends he is uninterested in the means. The ends, they say, are what they care about. But they are both lying. Ernst loved his pornography; Ernst worshiped the means. It is never the ends that matter -- it is only the means that matter. The terrorist and the pornographer are in it for the means. The means is everything to them. The blast of the bomb, the elephant position, the Schlagobers and blood -- they love it all. Their intellectual detachment is a fraud; their indifference is feigned. They both tell lies about having 'higher purposes.' A terrorist is a pornographer. — John Irving

For the first time, she became vividly aware of how much of her life she had spent with her husband. It had been a period of time utterly devoid of happiness and spontaneity. A time that she'd so far managed to get through only by using up every last reserve of perseverance and consideration. All of it self-inflicted. — Han Kang

Forever trusting who we are and nothing else matters — Karen Marie Moning

I will not let myself think that things are suddenly better. I will not let myself think that we've somehow escaped the us we always end up being. But at the same time, I will not deny what's happening. I will not deny this happiness. Because if happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not. — David Levithan

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. — Chanakya

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker. — Adam Goldberg

A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one. — Helen Rowland

The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots. — Alan Dean Foster