Governs Def Quotes & Sayings

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness. — Albert Ellis

Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself. — Marianne Williamson

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent. — Natalie Portman

Sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened. — John Ortberg

I don't know your life history, but I think children need to believe in powers outside themselves. That's why they read books about witches and wizards and God knows what. There is a human need for that which childhood normally exhausts. But if a child's world is broken up by too much reality, that need goes underground. — Sebastian Faulks

The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don't want anyone messing it about or endin' it before I've had the chance to find out about it.
-Adam to DEATH & the 4 horsepeople of the Apocalypse — Neil Gaiman

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him — H.L. Mencken

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk. — Colleen Dewhurst

Having been part of this wonderful show ever since series one, I know all too well what it's like to perform to the nation on the famous 'Strictly Come Dancing' dancefloor. — Anton Du Beke

I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need? — Sandra Cisneros

Solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone. — Paul Gauguin

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion. — Farrah Gray

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad. — Lauren Oliver

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future. — Bryant H. McGill

Decisions without actions are pointless. Actions without decisions are reckless. — John Boyd