Shanell Young Quotes & Sayings

Predictably, his eyes widened at her beauty
then stayed wide as he beheld the death lurking beneath it. — Sarah J. Maas

Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable. Certainly — Marcel Proust

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody. — John Spence

I find that a duck's opinion of me is influenced by whether or not I have bread. A duck loves bread, but he does not have the capability to buy a loaf. That's the biggest joke on the duck ever. If I worked at a convenience store, and a duck came in and stole a loaf of bread, I would let him go. I'd say, "Come back tomorrow, bring your friends!" When I think of a duck's friends, I think of other ducks. But he could have, say, a beaver in tow. — Mitch Hedberg

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being. — Victor Hugo

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion! — Harvey Milk

I just saw myself as a novelist. — Stephen King

I was never in an episode of I LOVE LUCY! — Lucie Arnaz

Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'. — Douglas MacArthur

I told you, said Dimitri, eyes both amused and sharp. — Richelle Mead

People don't slip. Time catches up with them. — Nat King Cole

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable. — H.L. Mencken

Only the forgotten are truly dead. — Tess Gerritsen

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free. — John Clellon Holmes

The world's changed. It's very difficult to know where to be. Because sometimes life is so fast and so absolute that the only way you can change things is by actually shifting your life utterly and totally to a different hemisphere. You can't partially change. There's no semi-revolution. — Cate Blanchett