Parisians Call Quotes & Sayings

My misery was too deep to speak any more. I scanned the page; I was having trouble breathing, as though the oxygen were leaving the room. Amid its devastation my mind flashed from thought to thought, despairingly in search of something left which it could rely on. Not rely on absolutely, that was obliterated as a possibility, just rely on a little,some solace, something surviving in the ruin. — John Knowles

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. — Lois Lowry

Peace is something like happiness; you cannot say "I will be happy when ... " and you can't say "I will be peaceful when ... " Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same breath, you cannot wait for everything around you to become peaceful in order for you to say "I am peaceful." In both happiness and peace, there is a heart of strength, determination and steadfastness; a heart that has the power to make things happen. You have to be at peace. You have to be happy. Now. — C. JoyBell C.

When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive. — Neel Burton

The email began: The security of people's communications is very important to me, — Glenn Greenwald

My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity. — Mick Jagger

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can. — Jacob Lew

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements. — Gilbert Ryle

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [ ... ]. — Richard Wright

She was damned if she was going to let a little thing like decapitation stand in the way of keeping him. — Jane Timm Baxter

The combination of fear of disappointment, entitlement, and performance pressure is a recipe for hopelessness and self-doubt. — Brene Brown

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. — Epictetus

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things. — Katy Perry