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Owning Quotes (page 147)

Hank, this is great."Yes."He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood. Ayn Rand
Douglas Adams quote: "I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I..."
I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence. Douglas Adams
H. G. Wells quote: "Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and..."
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. H. G. Wells
Only my complacent Mona crossed the crack with a simple step . . . She wasn’t depressed or angry. In fact, she seemed to verge on laughter. ‘He always said he would never take his own advice, because he knew it was worthless. Kurt Vonnegut
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung. A shadow across me. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was great to see, and it hurt like hell. Anne Lamott
It came over him now that the unexpected favours of fortune, no matter how dazzling, do not mean very much to us. They may excite or divert us for a time, but when we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. Willa Cather
While analyzing some already-existing opinions on the subject, he also expressed his own view. The main thing was the tone of the article and its remarkably unexpected conclusion. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mark Twain quote: "Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate,..."
Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society. Mark Twain
..These exhibitions, and the stories behind them, should also in due course have their own catalogs and novels. As visitors admire the objects and honor the memory of Fsun and Kemal, with due reverence, they will understand that, like the tales of Leyla and Mecnun or Hsn and Ak, this is not simply a story of lovers, but of the entire realm, that is, of Istanbul. Orhan Pamuk
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead. Jodi Picoult
People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way. Martin Amis
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails."
You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails. Barbara Kingsolver
He had always said to himself that there could be no persistence of personality, of character, of identity, of consciousness, except through memory; yet here, to the last implication of temperament, they all persisted. The soul that was passing in its integrity through time without the helps, the crutches, of remembrance by which his own personality supported itself, why should not it pass so through eternity without that loss of identity which was equivalent to annihilation? William Dean Howells
Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor' -- always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own. Chelsea Handler

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