Optariamos Quotes & Sayings

The painted veil which those who live call life — W. Somerset Maugham

If we aren't willing to do whatever is required," he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect. — James Luceno

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport. — Alistair Brownlee

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher. — Roger McNamee

This post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it ... — Meg Wolitzer

It's not about the taking part. It's about the winning. It's about the hours you sacrifice in order to achieve your victory, and only you know what victory is for you, and only you know what it took to get you there. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing. — Billy Collins

Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled and curtained. — Marcus Aurelius

They seemed so free, and were as a matter of fact so tangled and tied up, inside themselves. They seemed so dashing and unconventional, and were really so conventional, so, as it were, shut up indoors inside themselves. They looked like bold, tall young sloops, just slipping from the harbour, into the wide seas of life. And they were, as a matter of fact, two poor young rudderless lives, moving from one chain anchorage to another. — D.H. Lawrence

Don't become something just because someone else wants you to or because it's easy; you won't be happy. You have to do what you really, really, really, really want to do, even if it scares the s-t out of you. — Kristen Wiig

Johanna's face contorts, and I mimic her, to see what it feels like to have my face that way. It doesn't feel very good. I'm not sure why she did it to begin with. — Veronica Roth

The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature. — Michael Chabon

You like it dirty; I do too. Be filthy; beg me for it. Be a complete cock whore."
"You like being forced to just lay there and wait for me. I like it too. You look so good all open and ready for my cock. Just being still and obedient like a good little cock whore. — Kele Moon

MaMaLu knew how to fix things - lost things, hurt things, cracked things, cut and bruised things. — Leylah Attar

He knelt on one knee, close to the hem of her dress, and looked up at her. She watched him as he kissed her hand.
Beautiful, enchanting Livia, will you marry me today? — Debra Anastasia