Tarihteki Ilk Quotes & Sayings

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one! — George Eliot

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. — Leon Blum

I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet. — Dani Shapiro

There is only one child in the world
and the child's name is all children. — Carl Sandburg

The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist. — Nostradamus

Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meaning: Beyond that, your dreams have to die. Then your expectations. And your anger about investing a lifetime in learning shit and loving people and earning money, only to have all that crap come to basically nothing. Really, your physical body dying is the easy part. Beyond that, your memories must die. And your ego. Your pride and shame and ambition and hope, all that Personal Identity Crap can take centuries to expire. — Chuck Palahniuk

Please, dear God. Let her come back. You can have whatever you like. All my magazines, all my books, my things. Whatever you want. But just make it so she comes back. To me. Please, please God. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Ere midnight's frown and morning's smile, ere thou and peace may meet. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us. — Patricia Ireland

The pursuit of a kind of absolute safety, above all other considerations of what makes places good environments, has not only made those streets and cities less attractive, it has, in many cases, made them less safe. — Tom Vanderbilt

You make my frown turn upside down and now my worries are gone. — Owl City

When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends. — Ernest Bramah

London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets ... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest. — Virginia Woolf

And you- there's no way you're 5-foot-4. If you're going to round up, at least go with something more realistic, like 5-foot-2. — Lisa Roecker

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs. — Taylor Swift