Returners Final Fantasy Quotes & Sayings

When I got older I realized that the majority of people in Miller's Valley were the most discontented kind of Americans, working people whose situations hadn't risen or fallen over generations, but who still carried a little bit of those streets-paved-with-gold illusions and so were always annoyed that the streets were paved with tar. If they were paved at all. Maybe — Anna Quindlen

Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with success. There are those games which we lose, those races in which we finish last, and those promotions which never come. Such experiences provide an opportunity for us to show our determination and to rise above disappointment. — Thomas S. Monson

Way back when the Sam Peckinpah film The Wild Bunch premiered, a woman journalist raised her hand at the press conference and asked the following: "Why in the world do you have to show so much blood all over the place?" She was pretty worked up about it. One of the actors, Ernest Borgnine, looked a bit perplexed and fielded the question. "Lady, did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?" This film came out at the height of the Vietnam War.
I love that line. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. And bleeding. Shooting and bleeding. — Haruki Murakami

People hate people who are good at things. People hate people who are cute. — Aaryn Gries

When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face. — Sarah Dessen

I love comedy with a passion, and I hope that shows in my work. I would never want to move an inch away from comedy. What I want to do is continue to grow and extend myself, so if anything, I'm adding things on. — Darren Boyd

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience
buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello
become new all over again. — Anthony Doerr

I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word. — M. Pierce

Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked you to do. — M. Russell Ballard

Courage is saying maybe what I'm doing isn't working, maybe I should try something else. — Anna Lappe

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. — Evan Davis

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be. — Lou Holtz

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity. — D.H. Lawrence

The final two words of his challenge, "no tears", meant that the loser was expected to suffer a great deal of pain, but wasn't entitled to whine, bitch or moan about it. He'd just have to hunker down and keep his poverty to himself. — Michael Lewis