Legitimna Quotes & Sayings

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. — W.B.Yeats

Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them ... but you can change your response to them. — Jami Attenberg

If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God. — Lyman Abbott

And she and I, we will take that guilt to our graves of whatever we did and didn't do, or had to do, or failed to do — Anne Rice

The boy admonished himself for wanting everything to be a story. And now realized that some journeys were not stories. On some journeys, nothing really happened. You just kept taking steps. — Pete Hamill

The writer harked back to Lord Byron's maiden speech in the House three years before: "I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces in Turkey, but never, under the most despotic of infidel Governments, did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country." Mrs. — Marion Chesney

I had seen stars in such numbers that they filled the sky. It almost seemed as if the sky would break under the weight of all those things and come tumbling down. Never had I seen such an amazing skyful of stars. — Haruki Murakami

I think it is easier to do bad things than to do good things. And there is something in that basic fact, some little clue to the meaning of the universe. — Donald Miller

I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what's possible in different social settings, and different settings of class designation as well. — Todd Haynes

Aren't you going to introduce me to your friends? Especially the handsome ones? Simon — Cassandra Clare

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. — Nadine Gordimer

I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum. — Honus Wagner

In the summer of 1845 Edward Little was sixteen years old and restless in his blood. — James Carlos Blake

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. — Steven Bochco

Grabbed my duffel, my toothbrush, and a signed copy of my favorite book. Just the essentials. — C.M. Stunich