Lightens Define Quotes & Sayings

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better. — Mark Twain

You must speak the truth and you must speak it now, Conor O'Malley. Say it. You must.
Conor shook his head again, his mouth clamped shut tight, but he could feel a burning in his chest, like a fire someone had lit there, a miniature sun, blazing away and burning him from the inside.
"It'll kill me if I do," he gasped.
It will kill you if you do not, the monster said. You must say it. — Patrick Ness

So take your pleasure in the excellence of others. Let them be a heartfelt joy to you. — Santideva

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget. — Peter Orszag

If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell. — Mychal Judge

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings. — Jan Smuts

We humans are destined to live with our feet on the earth and our heads in the heavens, and we can never be at peace because we are pulled both ways. — Kent Nerburn

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me. — Philip Yancey

Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you ... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work. — Eugene Delacroix

I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors. — John Gallagher Jr.

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis. — Sammy Hagar

The very reason why the poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling that one used to have (at luncheon parties before the war perhaps), so that one responds easily, familiarly, without troubling to check the feeling, or to compare it with any that one has now. But — Virginia Woolf

This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon — Neil Patrick Harris

Think of good posture as your body's projection of a positive message to those you meet. — Cindy Ann Peterson