Life Ain't No Fairytale Quotes

#1. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#2. Superstition and sensation are always so much more appealing than truth and rationality. The

Diana Gabaldon

#3. My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

Frida Giannini

#4. We were beyond needing other people. Anyone else who happens on the both of us, they're just temps.

Courtney Summers

#5. For years my only purpose was to do documentary photos for magazines, without any idea that they were part of a larger project. It was as if I were carried along by a stream - even though I believed that the current was taking me in the right direction.

Hiroshi Hamaya

#6. I might be clueless about many, many things, but even I know that I can't make someone like me. If someone likes you, they'll realize it. And then it will be worth the wait.

Courtney Cole

#7. A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

Peggy McIntosh

#9. I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.

Dan Fouts

#10. Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.

Ian McEwan

#11. Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

Jack Higgins

#12. You hold all the power in this situation, Pim. One little word and all my fucking secrets are yours.

Pepper Winters

#13. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

Douglas Adams

#14. In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.

Giorgio Vasari

#15. As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Michael Lewis