Unaffecting Synonym Quotes & Sayings

No one likes a braggart, and to praise your children is to curse them with misfortune, but we admit it, if only in secret, if only to ourselves: We are proud, we are so proud of them. We've given them all we can, but our greatest gift has been to imprint upon them our own ordinariness. They may begrudge us, may think us unambitious and narrow-minded, but someday they will realize that what makes them unremarkable is what kept them alive. — Anthony Marra

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks? — Nora Ephron

You can get angry, you can get even, or you can get ahead. — Jeffrey Fry

Most people don't laugh so much while they're kissing." He grinned boyishly and tweaked her nose.
Belle tweaked his back. "They don't? How unfortunate for them. — Julia Quinn

It's important to like what you're doing. Choosing a profession is the most important decision you'll ever make - more important even than choosing a spouse. — Harlan Coben

We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide ... t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning. — Ronald Reagan

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one. — Felicity Huffman

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say. — Sojourner Truth

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. - On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908 — G.K. Chesterton

The Universe continually gives us gifts, but we have to open them. — Nancy Ashley

The key to happiness is...
...to hide the damn key in a place that only you can access. — Mansi Laus Deo

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully. — Pele

God, could that dopey girl dance. Buddy Singer and his stinking band was playing 'Just One of Those Things' and even they couldn't ruin it entirely. It's a swell song. I didn't try any trick stuff while we danced
I hate a guy that does a lot of show-off tricky stuff on the dance floor
but I was moving her around plenty, and she stayed with me. The funny thing is, I thought she was enjoying it, too, till all of a sudden she came out with this very dumb remark. "I and my girl friends saw Peter Lorre last night," she said. "The movie actor. In person. He was buyin' a newspaper. He's cute."
"You're lucky," I told her. "You're really lucky. You know that?" She was really a moron. But what a dancer. — J.D. Salinger