Stop Being Childish Quotes & Sayings

Life is funny like that, making us pay for the same stupid mistakes even after we've learned from them thoroughly. — R.K. Lilley

Everything wanting to contribute to my ulcer, Get in line and take a number! — James Patterson

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices. — Ray Dalio

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late. — Wong Kar-Wai

I love making up titles. — Mark Morris

Self esteem is built from the inside out and that is my inspiring message to all people. — Gretchen Carlson

Don't do it gurl," he said with a wink. "You need to pretend like that phone is your best friend's husband's dick now drop it. — Ethan Day

Publishing has no onus to be representative, but a fourth of America lives in conditions close to or below the poverty line. Think about the last time you read a novel in which someone went to cash a benefit check or paid for food in food stamps, or got off a double-shift at a retail store and were having their home or car repossessed. These are the conditions in which much of this country lives and it is a dereliction of capability (not duty) to ignore it in literature. — John Freeman

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. — George C. Wallace

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems. — Ludwig Von Mises

All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure. — Billy Graham

Yves did not like showers, he preferred long, scalding baths, with newspapers, cigarettes, and whiskey on a chair next to the bathtub, and with Eric nearby to talk to, to shampoo his hair, and to scrub his back. — James Baldwin

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

As millions use social media as a primary source of information, the risk of falling victim to being misinformed is high. Readers who quickly scan newsfeeds tend to only read (and share information about) a headline: focusing on "the hook." Whether due to complacency or lack of time, few explore the content. This allows bogus media outlets to descend on the unsuspecting (and unprepared) seekers of instant information, creating false stories with dazzling one-liners, secure in the knowledge that there will be little effort to pursue confirmation or research an entire story. — Carlos Wallace

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English. — Marilyn Hacker