Candour Beauty Quotes

#1. A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

Ani DiFranco

#2. My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Dolly Parton

#3. If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!

Lois Lowry

#4. Certain things have to happen before other things. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board, and look all over the place for the dice.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

Mason Cooley

#6. I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want it to end.

Hattie Morahan

#7. Instead of doing what many compliant people do when they wake up and find themselves lost, she didn't leave the relationship to find herself.

Henry Cloud

#8. The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

Jane Fonda

#9. Casual to me implies a lack of care or thought.

Patrick Grant

#10. sometimes, you like someone enough to leave them alone.

M.J. Fields

#11. I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.

Walter Tevis

#12. We are the directors of our own life, creating our own version of truth, which can be humorous, pleasurable, miserable, brutal, or stupid. Reconciling loss and misfortune can provide a sense of sublimity or catharsis.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep people ignorant of the past and to concentrate their minds on the utopia that lies ahead.

The Economist

#14. You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.

Charlaine Harris

#15. I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

Elton John

#16. There was so much suffering in Africa that it was tempting just to shrug your shoulders and walk away. But you can't do that, she thought. You just can't.

Alexander McCall Smith