Larkin Define Quotes & Sayings

Half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter. — Iris Murdoch

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early. — Gunter Grass

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors. — Lili Taylor

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I never stopped reading. — Doris Lessing

I hope to have gathered
To repay your kindness
The willow leaves
Scattered in the garden. — Matsuo Basho

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence. — Lawrence Kushner

I've fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf. So take pity upon the fool I have become. I forgot it was only a bargain between us. — Ronda Thompson

Because when you get right down to it, the only person you should trust is the one you'd lay down your life for. — Jodi Picoult

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none. — Charles Peguy

Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better. — Seth Godin