La Story Movie Quotes & Sayings

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment. — Richard M. Weaver

Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in. — Catherine Ponder

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death. — Nina Arianda

If you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You've got to put it number one. — Carli Lloyd

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home. — Dolly Parton

Simply put, killing healthy or treatable animals is immoral. — Nathan Winograd

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen. — Erik Hersman

I want to play Nightwing real bad. I worked with [Arrow creator] Greg Berlanti a while ago on a show called Everwood and jokingly I tweeted him saying, 'Hey, let me come play Nightwing for a couple episodes.' And somebody wrote an article about it, so I was like, let's make it happen, but I haven't heard anything about it yet. — Steven R. McQueen

Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses. — Yotam Ottolenghi

In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts. — Rudy Giuliani

A lover masculine so disappointed can speak and urge explanation, a lover feminine can say nothing; if she did, the result would be shame and anguish, inward remorse for self-treachery. Nature would brand such demonstration as a rebellion against her instincts, and would vindictively repay it afterwards by the thunderbolt of self-contempt smiting suddenly in secret. — Charlotte Bronte

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?' — Desmond Tutu

There are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far. — Roald Dahl

I just want to spend the rest of my life with someone who makes me smile, laugh, feel special, and supports me. — Taylor Swift