Ole Lady Quotes & Sayings

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. — Ben Jonson

He had never dreamed anyone would ever care enough to venture into the darkness to pull him into the light. He felt bewildered and awkward and filled with a strange sense of wonder. And a stranger sense of grace. — Iris Johansen

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely. — Peter Carey

The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure. — Mason Cooley

What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job. — Chris Liddell

My business is circumference. — Emily Dickinson

People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals. — Catharine MacKinnon

life pretending to be someone they're not." He — AnnaLisa Grant

Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time. — Nicole Appleton

Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?"
"Ah specs it's kase gempmums doan know whut dey wants. Dey jes' knows whut dey thinks dey wants. An' givin' dem whut dey thinks
dey wants saves a pile of mizry an' bein' a ole maid. An' dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird's tastes an' no sense at
all. It doan make a gempmum feel lak mahyin' a lady ef he suspicions she got mo' sense dan he has. — Margaret Mitchell

I sold my brother," Valentine said, "and they paid me for it. — Orson Scott Card

In life ... everyone hurts over something. But you can't hurt others because you do! Always try to help others and if you can't ... Don't ever hurt them! — Timothy Pina

My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another. — Nancy Mitford

The lowest animal forms had no nervous systems, still less a cerebrum; yet no one would venture to deny them the capacity for responding to stimuli. One could suspend life; not merely particular sense-organs, not only nervous reactions, but life itself. One could temporarily suspend the irritability to sensation of every form of living matter in the plant as well as in the animal kingdom; one could narcotize ova and spermatozoa with chloroform, chloral hydrate, or morphine. Consciousness, then, was simply a function of matter organized into life; a function that in higher manifestations turned upon its avatar and became an effort to explore and explain the phenomenon it displayed - a hopeful-hopeless project of life to achieve self-knowledge, nature in recoil - and vainly, in the event, since she cannot be resolved in knowledge, nor life, when all is said, listen to itself. — Thomas Mann