15636 Quotes

#1. One loves and is loved in great pain, and one is alive in the experience of it. It is the walking-death quality of depression that I have tried to eliminate from my life;

Andrew Solomon

#2. He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

Juvenal

#3. You might loosen your corset strings," he advised. "It will make your journey more pleasant."
"I'm not wearing a c-corset," she said without looking at him.
"You aren't? My God." His gaze slid over her with expert assessment.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

Vernon Johns

#5. The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

Chuck Norris

#6. I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.

Pierce Brosnan

#7. Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

Eliza Leslie

#8. Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline ... It's easy. Incredibly easy.

Tammara Webber

#9. It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

Anne Rice

#10. I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

C.S. Lewis

#11. In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in.

Anna Wintour

#12. If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.

Jose Rizal

#13. I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

A.S. Byatt

#14. No one ever likes the right person.

Bret Easton Ellis

#15. The more we learn about flowers, the less silent they are.

Sharman Apt Russell