Sz V Sz L N Met L Quotes & Sayings

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away. — Samuel Johnson

In trying to stop your tears, I was already obeying the officer's command to the letter, not out of patriotic allegiance, but out of cowardice, in order not to feel the pain of my own heart, breaking. — Ruth Ozeki

To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision — Soren Kierkegaard

Children raised with respect and inner direction tend to play well in groups, at times quite peacefully, each involved in her own project or involved with the other chidren. — Magda Gerber

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am. — Claire Tomalin

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable. — Cherie Lunghi

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write. — Avijeet Das

When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains. — Rachel Roy

You can't walk on water holding all that weight, it just makes you sink right down. Let it go. — Jenny B. Jones

I thought my dad was out of work, because my friends had fathers with briefcases who'd go off somewhere with bow ties on. But my father would finish breakfast and go back to his room. — Thomas Steinbeck