Lebendig English Quotes & Sayings

Knowing death is nearby gives you a chance to live ... deliberately. -Tristan — Chelsea Fine

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be. — C. JoyBell C.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time. — Martha Graham

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking. — Anna Kendrick

A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results. — Sun Tzu

But men and women are different in the way that they feel loved. Men like to be admired for what they do, for their integrity and their accomplishments, whether it's at work or at the gym or mowing the lawn, because it makes them feel manly. When a woman tells a man that she is proud of him, or she tells him that he did a good job, he'll about bend over backwards to take care of her and love her."
"But women like attention from men, because it makes them feel feminine and adored. That's why they're always fixin' themselves up, doing their hair, wearing pretty clothes and makeup and jewelry and perfume. It's all to attract your attention, you know." (Thelma Jenkins) — Carol McCormick

The past is not lost. An image from years ago remained present somewhere in the fourth dimension and it reached you just in that moment. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I never thought of myself as a good singer. — Loleatta Holloway

For as long as I wanted to swim, I also wanted to do something on TV. My best friend in high school, we used to pretend like we had a TV show, and we had this dream of being the next 'Kate & Allie.' Having that kind of a shtick. — Summer Sanders

The fact that you have government-guaranteed student loans has created a whole new sector in the American economy that didn't really exist before - private for-profit universities that sell junk degrees that don't help the students. They promise the students, "We'll help you get a better job. We'll arrange a loan so that you don't have to pay a penny for this education." Their pet bank gets them the government-guaranteed loan, and the student may get the junk degree, but doesn't get a job, so they don't pay the loan. — Michael Hudson

I'm with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you're losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss — Allen Ginsberg

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up? — Susan Hampshire

I think the best beauty trick is to take good care of your skin. Wash your face at night, wear sunscreen, and hydrate. — Sophia Bush

Faith may be a gift in religion, but in science it's poison, for faith is no way to find truth. — Jerry A. Coyne