Vida Dura Quotes

#1. It was better to be angry than to be hurt; maybe even better than being loved and held by him, because maybe anger was what she'd been feeling toward him all along, anger disguised as wanting.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

Renee Fleming

#3. And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that.

John Slattery

#4. Noah's experienced reputation walked down the hallway before he did.

Katie McGarry

#5. Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Maya Angelou

#6. But as I revisit the arguments offered so boldly in The Wisdom of Insecurity, I can feel the shock of truth that it produced in me. His

Alan W. Watts

#7. The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.

Wim Wenders

#8. For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#9. I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

Maya Angelou

#10. Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

Ian Frazier

#11. If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.

Will Self

#12. Your life is your art.

Keri Smith

#13. I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#14. Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him.

Donald Miller

#15. Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Andre Gide