Giftlessness Quotes & Sayings

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers! — Alice McDermott

Because we all need to stop once in a while.
To think.
To evaluate.
To accept life.
So that we move on with a better perspective. — Diana Rikasari

I'm fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say 'Fine - how was your lobotomy?' — Roseanne Barr

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around. — Bill Konigsberg

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that. — Chuck Klosterman

If that was a proposal, you really need to work on your delivery. — Michelle Celmer

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over ... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, boy, there's an original thought! — Charles M. Schulz

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three ... And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere! — Fyodor Dostoevsky

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow. — John Steinbeck

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do. — Shia Labeouf

All things found their ends. — Justin Cronin

My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much. — Matthew Sweet

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. — Thomas Paine