Gifset Quotes & Sayings

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good. — John Steinbeck

The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful - and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex. — Jane Austen

I remember later he said (Professor Higgins again), you don't really stand a dog's chance anyhow. You're too pretty. The art of love's your line: not the love of art. — John Fowles

And who threw it, then?" continued Rosine, speaking quite freely the very words I should so much have wished to say, but had no address or courage to bring it out: how short some people make the road to a point which, for others, seems unattainable! "That — Charlotte Bronte

Loyalty is proved by what we do, not where we come from! — Erin Hunter

The spouses of authors ought to really read their better halves books. What is found amidst those pages may enlighten them to knowing a side of their partner that can only be seen on the written page. — Sai Marie Johnson

cannot decide what I will next think or intend until a thought or intention arises. What will my next mental state be? I do not know - it just happens. — Sam Harris

The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful. — Penn Jillette

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I ... am ... a man! — Joseph Merrick

Maybe life was just a series of phases - one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I'd be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards. — Benjamin Alire Saenz