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Personally Quotes (page 138)

Babe Ruth quote: "Its harder to beat a person that never gives up."
Its harder to beat a person that never gives up. Babe Ruth
If someone cracks up, what does that mean? At what point does a person about to fall to pieces say: I'm cracking up? And if I were to crack up, what form would it take? Doris Lessing
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that? I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a... Oscar Wilde
How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had felt at first, a girl like her who had never heard of his name, and never would have a clue to his personality. Thomas Hardy
Yes, it's difficult to talk to your heart, and perhaps it isn't even necessary. We simply have to trust and follow the signs and live our Personal Legend; sooner or later, we will realize that we are all part of something, even if we can't understand rationally what that something is. Paulo Coelho
Moliere quote: "I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish."
I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish. Moliere
There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill. Nelson Mandela
Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late. Lawrence Durrell
Everyone with any sense and experience in life would rather take his fellows one by one than in a crowd. Crowds are noisy, unreasonable and impatient. They can trample you easier than a single person can. And a crowd will never buy you lunch. P. J. O'Rourke
Why would you family think about it?"Oh, my mother's the only one that counts, and she likes you very much from what she's seen of you."So you had me inspected?"No-dash ti all, I seem to be saying all the wrong things today. I was absolutely stunned that first day in court, and I rushed off to my mater, who's an absolute dear, and the kind of person who really understands things, and I said, 'Look here! here's the absolutely one and only woman, and she's being put through a simply ghastly... Dorothy L. Sayers
Haruki Murakami quote: "It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with..."
It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously. Haruki Murakami
We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately - the object seemed incidental to this will to give ourselves away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it. A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into. Flight from exactly what? These rooms, blandly filled with excrement and heat? To what purpose? David Foster Wallace
Nora Ephron quote: "I look as young as a person can look given how old I am."
I look as young as a person can look given how old I am. Nora Ephron
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second..."
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins Ralph Waldo Emerson
For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence. Samuel Richardson

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