One Liner Attitude Quotes & Sayings

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. — Elizabeth Moon

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. — Josh Billings

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them. — Kate Christensen

The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities; it's a lack of perspective. — Tim Fargo

I'd crawl through a four-alarm fire to get to you Delilah, and I wouldn't care if I got burned. — Ella Fox

I'm counting my drawer when Regn comes into the office. I hear her before she enters. I listen for her. The sound of the keypad, the sound of three doors. I saw her pull up on my way in. The anticipation is what I love. The details. The security of knowing she's arrived and will be here for the day. Even if we don't have the leisure of time, we have time. It is the unspoken acknowledgments to self. The constant checking and watching for expressions, inflections in the voice, mannerisms. It is a gradual advance. The more we are restrained, the stronger it grows. It is innocence and age that allows the affection to mature, naturally, as it should. Something inside stirs, the heart itself is attracted, much before the body responds. Knowing Regn looks forward to seeing me as much as I do her makes me happy. — Wheston Chancellor Grove

You make the rarest canvas, love — Madeline Miller

The end of this world looks closer
in eyes of them who want to repent. — Toba Beta

Sir Harry Towers cares. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. — Simon Newcomb

Succeeding, whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it). — George Saunders

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one. — Dag Hammarskjold

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness. — Marie Antoinette