Ofliving Quotes & Sayings

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories. — Susan Sontag

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity. — Tim Robbins

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love? — Rachel L. Schade

Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

There were a rare few in this world who could stop me in my tracks, but it was only Elizabeth who could bring me to my knees. — A.L. Jackson

Biblical names are hot again. — Anita Diament

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. — William Blake

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests. — John W. Gardner

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn't have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you. — Veronica Roth

I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems ... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally. — Madonna Ciccone

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving? — Mark Frost

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life. — Roger Ebert