Prince S Gambit Quotes

#1. Damen felt it then, the first dizzy edge of new emotion, and he let go his hold of Laurent like a man fearing a precipice; and yet was helpless.

C.S. Pacat

#2. Happiness is like rising bubbles
delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen
ever present.

Danielle LaPorte

#3. Does the written word tame passions? Or subdue the forces of nature? Or does it find a harmony with the inhumanity of the universe? Or incubate a violence, held back but always ready to spring, to claw?

Italo Calvino

#4. You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

Raymond Carver

#5. When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

Kamal Ravikant

#6. If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

George Steiner

#7. Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#8. As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember ... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

Wayne Dyer

#9. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Rob Sheffield

#10. Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

Fran Lebowitz