The Outsiders Chapter 5-6 Quotes & Sayings

It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us. — Gabrielle Bernstein

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation ... Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs. — Thomas Jefferson

Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since. — Paul Auster

I'm drawn to him and tied to him with the cords of a thousand different memories. — Ally Condie

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things. — Henry Samueli

In the early 1980s, Graham worked hard to turn the Repository into a respectable business, rather than a ludicrous one: Graham's wife didn't like keeping the sperm at the Escondido estate. Not only had the house been picketed, but a Japanese trespasser had once made a run at the sperm, only to be nipped by a family dog. — David Plotz

Nessa had never really felt truly beautiful before, but tonight she not only understood that she was beautiful, she understood that everyone was. That for all the competition and fear and knowing that the next runner was coming up behind you, she had been missing out on how beautiful life could be. She should have been watching and appreciating others instead of waiting inside herself for the right time to shine. The time was now. — C.D. Bell

The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world. — Hugo Chavez

Be patient with your impatience. — Roy Masters

And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect. — Vladimir Nabokov

She's been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she's ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them. — Naomi Novik

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment. — Sonia Faleiro