162162 Quotes

#1. In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#2. The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

John Irving

#3. And it was only as he rose from the bed, his body illuminated by the colored lights of the city, that I caught the glint of calculation behind his eyes, a cold, blank set to his face. His shadow self, and not a nice one.

Jennifer Egan

#4. A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

#5. You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

Anna Deavere Smith

#6. I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

Sally Brampton

#7. Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Henry Williamson

#8. You're a little taller than I'd imagined, but no one's perfect.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.

Johannes Scotus Eriugena

#10. If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

Garth Brooks

#11. To recognize that automobiles are there to get you from point A to point B. They are utilitarian devices, not expressions of social status.

Randy Pausch

#12. Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.

Francois Fenelon

#13. Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.

Dalai Lama

#14. Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it.

Lee Woodruff