Incorrect Portal Quotes & Sayings

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats. — John Dos Passos

I cry even harder, thinking of how it could have been, of how I thought it would be. For the first time, I want to give up, to die, because suddenly everything is too much and there is no solution in sight. — B.A. Paris

So I punished myself instead. I gave myself the worst punishment I could think of: I decided to live and I decided to stop drinking." "And afterward?" "I got to my feet again and started working. Worked longer days than all the others. Trained. Went on long walks. Read books. Some on law. Stopped meeting bad friends. Good ones too, by the way. The ones I had left after all the boozing. I don't know why in fact, it was like a big cleanup. Everything in my old life had to go, good as well as bad. One day I sat down and rang round all those I thought I had known in my former life and said: 'Hi, we can't meet anymore. It was nice knowing — Jo Nesbo

Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility — Grant Cardone

I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week. — Dick Van Patten

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job. — Trey Gowdy

You should learn to live a little, rough it out-I'm telling you, there's no greater high. — Claire North

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years. — William John Locke

You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it. — Jennifer Crusie

A sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors. — Georgia Harkness

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know. — Matthew Quick

Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn't mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied. — Patricia Hampl

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson