Respectabilities Quotes & Sayings

I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past. — Peter James

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them — Seneca.

I realize that nothing's as it seems. — Sting

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you? — Jodi Picoult

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects. — Colin Firth

I have people that have been studying [Obama's birth certificate] and they cannot believe what they're finding ... I would like to have him show his birth certificate, and can I be honest with you, I hope he can. Because if he can't, if he can't, if he wasn't born in this country, which is a real possibility ... then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics. — Donald Trump

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice. — Rosecrans Baldwin

Well, first of all if it wasn't for being saved by Jesus, I would not be alive. I would be dead. Some people say Jesus saved their soul ... Well, maybe Jesus saved my soul spiritually, but He also saved my life physically. Every aspect of my life today has to do with the fact that Jesus saved my life. — Lacey Mosley

Even when people aren't suffering from illness or aging, our unfulfilled cravings and the cessation of temporary pleasures, as well as the dissonance between our expectations and reality, lead to dukkha. — Sara Wilson

I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do. — Gillian Jacobs

I've had sex, she said
But I don't know
What making love
Feels like — Rupi Kaur

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once. — Barry Lyga

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large. — Louise Bogan

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody. — Vinita Hampton Wright