Tesauro Diccionario Quotes & Sayings

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled. — Carl Jung

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius

No human is more intelligent than the other ... just more adept at certain areas of intelligence. — Siddharth Katragadda

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace. — Philippa Gregory

I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class. — Mike Leigh

People aren't thinking about us nearly as much as we might think they are. — Lysa TerKeurst

Whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and reshape his course accordingly. I tried to do the latter, and I failed. But I don't admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that my success would have made it a right one; though that's how we appraise such attempts nowadays. — Thomas Hardy

You can't kill Myron, Royce," Hadrian said, rapidly pulling the monk away as if he had found a child playing with a wild bear. "It would be like killing a puppy. — Michael J. Sullivan

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen. — Michael Jordan

This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to beat, but the heart exists and even beats before the blood reddens. — Marcello Malpighi

Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores silence, and above all, confers immortality. At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to be a torture, you see; the mind dominates the whole past, and the pain of living is over forever. — Albert Camus

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote. — David Nicholls

The tannoy is crackling but I can only hear heavy breathing and snuffling.
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Uh-oh, the tannoy is crackling again.
Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen, I momentarily lost hold of my pie. — Louise Rennison

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics. — Gillian Jacobs

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough. — Leslie Caron