People Who Tell Half Truths Quotes & Sayings

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet. — Alice Sebold

Eat your alcohol, or you won't get nonconsensual sex! — Brenda Song

How can a person expect to escape their destiny, Merry? That is the question."
A silence, then a small, practical voice. "There's always the train, I guess."
Juniper thought at first she'd misheard; she glanced at Meredith and realized that the child was completely serious.
"I mean, there are buses, too, but I think the train would be faster. A smoother ride, as well. — Kate Morton

For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead.
It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can. At such times it seems that the conversation is spoken by automatons who have no choice in what they say. I hear myself or someone else saying things like: "In my opinion the Russian people are a great people, but
" or "Yes, what you say about the hypocrisy of the North is unquestionably true. However
" and I think to myself: this is death. Lately it is all I can do to carry on such everyday conversations, because my cheek has developed a tendency to twitch of its own accord. — Walker Percy

Don't let your dreams be dreams — Jack Johnson

He was dangerous not because he was reckless, but because of the opposite. — Maggie Stiefvater

Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to. — Werner Erhard

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise. — Dick Cavett

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths. — Joshua Oppenheimer

One of the eternal truths of life - People who ask "do you know who I am?" will always, given half a chance, tell you. — Christina Engela

The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls - even if you'd once been best friends - was now just that, outsiders. — Meg Wolitzer

To know you have enough is to be rich. — Laozi

You are free and that is why you are lost. — Franz Kafka