Printf Double Quotes & Sayings

Oh, gentlemen, do you know, perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death. — Ellen Hopkins

Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.' — George R R Martin

The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive. — Malcolm Bradbury

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. — William Godwin

I would like, just once, for a woman to see me as other than a person with a coronet. Simply as a man, no different than other men. — Eloisa James

Two plus two is not sometimes equal to four ... It is equal to four plus one because one is a powerful amalgamation. — Enock Maregesi

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns. — Thomas Brooks

Wake the happy words. — Theodore Roethke

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on. — Luther Allison

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. — Timothy Noah