Snappy Life Quotes & Sayings

I didn't trust people who forgot to eat. — Jennifer Weiner

I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect. — Seal

Humor without sadness is just pie in the face — Cath Crowley

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know. — Barry McGuire

Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life. — Barry Marshall

Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all. — Larry McMurtry

You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere. — Jamie Dornan

You should think with your heart,' said her mother.
'My heart?' whispered Ophelia.
'Your heart,' said her mother, and she touched Ophelia's chest with the tip of her finger. It was the tiniest of touches, but a warmth and new hope spread through Ophelia's body. She began to smile. — Karen Foxlee

Rob looked a little shocked. "Don't you look at me like that," I snapped at him. "Just because I can't trim a beard don't mean I can't swear."
"Like a sailor," he added. "I've never heard so many curses in my whole life. All combined. — A.C. Gaughen

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts. — Dwight L. Moody

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third. — Robert Jordan

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand. — Benny Hinn

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place. — Tom Clancy

He always had been. — Lee Child

Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that. — Suzanne Palmieri

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. — Anne Lamott

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children. — Amy Chua

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life. — Orrin Woodward

True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," only prevail where truth is not understood, for knowledge and simplicity are the foundation of all true eloquence. Eloquence abounds in beautiful and natural images, sublime but simple conceptions, in passionate but plain words. Burning words appeal to the emotions as well as to the intellect; they stir the soul and touch the heart. — Albert Ellery Bergh