1984 Vocabulary Quotes

#1. If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Karl Lagerfeld

#2. Homophobia is easier for black people where black people are concerned. They feel they have the right to correct me on my behavior. There is this notion that homosexuality is something that white people do.

David McAlmont

#3. I find nothing to be more heroic than someone chasing their own dream against all odds.

S.W. Southwick

#4. The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

James F. Cooper

#5. The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life.

Edith Wharton

#6. I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

Christina Baker Kline

#7. I wish I could leave a trail of gratefulness behind me that you could see, glowing thanks. I would pay to see stars, but I never have to. This to me is one of those miracles.

Elizabeth Berg

#8. For long I could not close my ears that night: I lay listening, I knew not what for. A scare was on me that made me dislike the dark,

J.M. Barrie

#9. What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

Janet Fitch

#10. People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#11. Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

Oswald Chambers

#12. I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

Kenneth Clarke

#13. Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Margaret Cavendish