La Ideal Quotes

#1. What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#2. The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
[Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. Despite my tendency to keep eighty percent of myself to myself, I liked being surrounded by people.

Samantha Young

#4. If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

Adam Carolla

#5. We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen. Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea

Douglas Preston

#6. She yearned to call him, but hated the sound of the phone ringing, ringing, knowing that he might be standing right there, not picking up, knowing it was her.

Janet Fitch

#7. I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional ... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.

Pierce Brosnan

#8. When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.

Claire McCaskill

#9. Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

Kenneth Waltz

#10. It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. The individualists' ideal was to live their lives as neither exploiter nor exploited - but how to do that in a society divided in this way? Their answer was for people to take direct action through the reprise individuelle, or in slang, la reprise au tas - taking back the whole heap.

Richard Parry

#12. The look she gives me is priceless - shock mixed with pure pleasure. I make a note to put that look on her face as often as possible.

Deanna Chase

#13. Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

C.S. Lewis