Legatees Def Quotes & Sayings

His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty. — Charlotte Bronte

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears. — Chang-rae Lee

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery. — Horace Walpole

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity. — Taylor Swift

Evening fashions have to be fabulous.Don't be just better ... be the BEST. — Tony Bowls

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role. — Ed Westwick

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it. — Tom Peters

Failure is your only enemy. The only way up is to never look down. We succeed because we believe. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? — Katie McGarry

Don't live life hiding behind your past. Live for the moment. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years — Nicole Williams

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson