Bleak Means Quotes

#1. When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

Gerald R. Ford

#2. Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

Octavia Butler

#3. Doing for others may be the only way to create lasting well-being.

Tom Rath

#4. She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

Lloyd Alexander

#5. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

Gore Vidal

#6. These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.

Francesca Marciano

#7. There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

Grantland Rice

#8. She stares back into me, as if we are both seeking a humanity that neither of us has.

Beth Revis

#9. A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

Jack Ma

#10. I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

Placido Domingo

#11. Everyone has a temptation; a weakness that they would yield to. Mine is you. Not only you, but your love. For your love is unique. For you are the other half of my soul. I feel you, even when you are not there. It's like a shadow. You are my shadow. Your love follows me every step I tread.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#12. You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

Paul Giamatti

#13. Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.

Niall Williams

#14. For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts

Oscar Wilde

#15. My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

Dara Horn

#16. It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

Brian P. Cleary