Fare Temps Quotes

#1. Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.

Tim Morrison

#2. 'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!'

William T. Vollmann

#3. If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should like to say, that I for one would never consent to opposing an insurmountable bar to the diffusion of literature among the people ...

Charles Dickens

#4. What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.

Derek Jacobi

#5. Doubt was a luxury, according to her mother, and it was always better to act, however unsure you might be.

Lisa Moore

#6. Love is like life-merely longer.

Emily Dickinson

#7. Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Walter Savage Landor

#8. But I remind myself that I know you. I know your heart, and that will always stay the same, so I will always know you ...

Suzanne LaFleur

#9. True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

John C. Calhoun

#10. A creative person has to # create .

Katherine Dunham

#11. When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him, and He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Ole Hallesby

#12. Mia," Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. "You're starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

Gayle Forman