Quotes & Sayings About Sticking Together During Hard Times

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel. — Meg Cabot

Charity begins at home. — Robert A. Caro

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Lord, that she might be safe, he prayed. She and the child. — Diana Gabaldon

The gospel of Truth is holy word of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And how they set me up in court! They really set me up!" "Even if they hadn't set you up, you'd have been convicted anyway," Alyosha said, sighing. "Yes, the local public is sick of me! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Carrying his books from one life into the next was nothing new to Zuckerman. He had left his family for Chicago in 1949 carrying in his suitcase the annotated works of Thomas Wolfe and Roget's Thesaurus. Four years later, age twenty, he left Chicago with five cartons of classics, bought secondhand out of his spending money, to be stored in his parents' attic while he served two years in the Army. In 1960, when he was divorced from Betsy, there were thirty cartons to be packed from the shelves no longer his; in 1965, when he was divorced from Virginia, there were just under sixty to cart away; in 1969, he left Bank Street with eighty-one boxes of books. — Philip Roth

There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last boat to the island. — Joanne Harris

If you lose your mind when in a large group then use someone else's! — Stephen Richards

The light of artistic creation is also blinding.
The artist can't see the suffering he causes
to those around him. And the'll never
understand the purity of his goal, how the heat
of his invention won't melt the ice in his heart.
He must be ruthless!
No religion, no purpose except this:
Make something perfect before you die.
Life is short, art is for all time — Ian McEwan

People are messy, unpredictable things. — Mary Roach

Perry's eyes fluttered open. "Don't think about him."
"How can I not? How can you not?"
"You're here. I only want to think about you right now. — Veronica Rossi

One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone. — Abby Sunderland

People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs. — Chrisette Michele

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past — William Shakespeare