Partees Quotes & Sayings

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment. — Al Pacino

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost. — Marina Keegan

A certain readiness to perish is not so very rare, but it is seldom that you meet men whose souls, steeled in the impenetrable armour of resolution, are ready to fight a losing battle to the last, the desire of peace waxes stronger as hope declines, till at last it conquers the very desire of life. Which of us here has not observed this, or maybe experienced something of that feeling in his own person - this extreme weariness of emotions, the vanity of effort, the yearning for rest? — Joseph Conrad

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places. — Alice Munro

We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul. — Lancelot Andrewes

He sat. The white cat still contemplated him with large, moist eyes. — Richard Wright

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect. — Nathaniel Branden

Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground. — Li Ka-shing

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom. — Robert M. Gates

I think you have to be honest and not try to be somebody that you really aren't. — Heather Graham