Gayeties Quotes & Sayings

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity. — Tim Robbins

There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace. — Wilkie Collins

He cuddled her back into his arms and sighed, closing his eyes as the flames in the gas logs danced like sugar-plums. Gracie watched them across his broad chest, feeling the happiness like a flame inside her heart. Somewhere she heard Christmas carols being sung and a dog barking in the distance. Closer, she heard the strong, regular beat of Jason's heart under her ear. Christmas wasn't only in her heart. It was in her arms. — Diana Palmer

The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. — Lewis B. Smedes

Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice. — Douglas Coupland

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired. — William Monahan

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition. — Madeleine M. Kunin

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something. — Joseph Kosinski

Irishmen are best at the specially hard professions - the trades of iron, the lawyer, and the soldier. — G.K. Chesterton