Occidentals Def Quotes & Sayings

When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry. — Rhys Ifans

So you're spending more than you're making? What did I tell you about being responsible? Damn it, Camille! How many times have I told you not to get the credit cards?" He wiped his mouth and threw his napkin on the table. "I didn't whip your ass enough as a child! If I had, you might listen to me once in a goddamn while!" Trenton — Jamie McGuire

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit. — Mahatma Gandhi

No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler. — Chris Pavesic

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make it through the afternoon without a stained blouse and a scolding. To persuade the girl next door to like me. To meet a man. To make a mint. To prosper. To love. To live fearlessly. — Anna Quindlen

Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world. — Cheryl Cole

You realize that life is simply too short to keep being someone you're not. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it. — Ray Bradbury

Okay, well, that sucks. But, Soph, guess what I saw today."
I flopped across my mattress, toeing my sneakers off. "We're on a cursed island surrounded by killer fog, and ruled by two crazy-ass witches. I really can't begin to guess, Jen."
"Lara, coming out of the cellar," she said, blowing her pink stripe off her forehead. "And looking super secretive and suspicious. Well, I mean, more super secretive and suspicious than usual."
Ah, the cellar. A dank, creepy place full of magical artifacts that had a tendency to move around. Archer and I had spent an awful lot of quality time down there last year. — Rachel Hawkins

What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us? — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Well, I'm somebody who is just living ... living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right. — Richard Branson

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. — Mary, Queen Of Scots

The man was so smooth he wouldn't slide on an oil slick. — Faith Hunter

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end. — Chris Patten