Truisms About Life Quotes & Sayings

It's being reported that the economy lost 95,000 jobs in September. And that's just people leaving the White House. — Jay Leno

It was the woman's job to be on the defensive, because past experience had taught her to be. It was the guy's job to be on the offensive, because he had no choice. It was that or never meet at all. — Norah Vincent

She hugs me tight, wetness from her eyes prickling my skin, but I'm not fazed. I can handle it. I can take her anger, her fear, her sadness. I can take it all because that's what people do when they love each other. They don't tell them to stop or to think of something better. They hold them for as long as they need it. They're there for each other. As it should be. — Clarissa Wild

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not."
"Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world. — Tamora Pierce

Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics. — James Cook

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death. — Ottessa Moshfegh

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat. — Ingrid Newkirk

I find it very easy to love because I grew up in such a loving family. — Donna Air

My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!" — Bryan Lee O'Malley

If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back. — Gavin Douglas

Without him in my life I'm a frozen pond reflecting the daylight but never absorbing its heat. — Petra F. Bagnardi

Leave footprints of love and kindness on the seashore of humanity. — Debasish Mridha

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. — Bertrand Russell

I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility. Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease. — Judith Orloff