If you can't be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.
—Lisa Scottoline in Killer Smile
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
—Oscar Wilde
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
—Margot Asquith
The more things you do, the more you can do.
—Lucille Ball
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
—Pamela Hansford Johnson
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
—Plutarch
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Words of love, are works of love.
—William R. Alger
Life's too short to waste it on someone you can't trust. You should be able to depend on the man you love not to lie to you or cheat on you. If you have that as a base, you can work on the other stuff.
—Linda Howard in Mr. Perfect
The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.
—Scott Spencer in Endless Love
So many people enter and leave your life. Hundreds of thousands of people. You have to keep the door open so they can come in. But it also means you have to let them go.
—Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
—Jewish Proverb
Television has raised writing to a new low.
—Samuel Goldwyn
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
—Bertrand Russell
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
—Persius