Happy Families Are All Alike Quotes

#1. I know I'm not the woman he so obviously hungers for and even though I'm not who he wants, I find myself stupidly willing to be her substitute.

Ella Frank

#2. Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

John Wayne

#3. The cannon thunders ... limbs fly in all directions ... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice ... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

#4. Being stern was like being underwater-she could do it, but never for long, and how her whole boy burned to come up for breath!

Catherynne M Valente

#5. It's like I'm on a roller-coaster ride, but I'm not allowed to get off. I'm strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.

Danielle Esplin

#6. There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#7. All families are happy, all families are alike.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

Robert Gottlieb

#9. When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

Susan Cheever

#10. Good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

Bel Kaufman

#11. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

#12. Tolstoy had written something about happy families being all alike and unhappy ones each unhappy in its own way.

Alan Bradley

#13. Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

Natsuki Takaya

#15. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI

J.D. Robb

#16. Two can live as cheaply as one
if one doesn't eat the other goes naked.

W. A. Criswell

#17. On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's Pagan poetry
Pagan poetry

Bjork

#18. Abruptly, she let go of his wrists and allowed him to push her to her knees. She looked up, waited for his smile.
And then she punched him in the nuts.

Laura Ruby

#19. Happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way.

Herman Koch

#20. Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.

Michael Josephson