Leftover Friend Quotes

#1. I know what she is talking about.
Namely, everything I refused to talk about, in court: what it is like to know that you are a target, because of the color of your skin. What it means to work hard, to be an impeccable employee, and have none of that make a difference in the face of prejudice.

Jodi Picoult

#2. By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.

Gerard Butler

#3. All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.

Katie Couric

#4. In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

Brennan Manning

#5. He still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did everything she leaned on instantaneously decay?..

Gustave Flaubert

#6. Hello, beautiful creature of the night. Why so forlorn? Play for me your melody of eternal sorrow.

Anonymous

#7. If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

David Lloyd George

#8. There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

Bernard Malamud

#9. We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

Randall Terry

#10. She was a fuckin' angel, and I was the devil ready to break her from the magnificence.

Nashoda Rose

#11. Oh, I don't mean to infer that you're not a great guy. I'm sure you're the exception to the rule.

Jaye Frances

#12. You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Richard Bach

#13. People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine ... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own ... they lose the plot.

Guy Claxton

#14. We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

Joko Beck