Ideas For Memorial Quotes & Sayings

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. — Glenda Jackson

A friend once told me that she understood pity as 'I'm sorry for you', whereas compassion is 'I feel your pain because I see that you could be me and I could be you'. — Shannon Moroney

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire. — Nik Wallenda

Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle. — Paramahansa Yogananda

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. — Schuyler Colfax

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact? — Kiera Cass

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich. — Umberto Eco

Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul. — Peter Cullen

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success. — Les Brown

I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of me, which is nothing compared to the life of an artist. Writers can live in obscurity and come out of the woodwork with a book, then go back in. Artists don't have that luxury. — Rachel Kushner

They were all fitting into place, the jig-saw pieces. The odd strained shapes that I had tried to piece together with my fumbling fingers and they had never fitted. Frank's odd manner when I spoke about Rebecca. Beatrice and her rather diffident negative attitude. The silence that I had always taken for sympathy and regret was a silence born of shame and embarrassment. It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great wall in front of them that hid the truth. This was what I had done. I had built up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. Had I made one step forward out of my own shyness Maxim would have told these things four months, five months ago. — Daphne Du Maurier

If every element of the song doesn't come within the first hour of writing, then you're never going to get it - if that makes sense. It's kind of like you need to be in a mental state where everything is so reactionary that you don't double-think anything, and so if it's not immediate then it's probably not going to happen at all, and you should probably toss the song. — Zach Condon

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See? — Louis C.K.