Quotes of famous people

“Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas”

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”

“A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.”

“The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government.”

“The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.”

“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.”

“We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.”

“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“A lot of people, they think, ‘Oh, I’m only going to be happy when I find a special person who is going to make me happy.’ No. In life, you have to be happy with yourself first, number one. When you’re happy with yourself, you have to find another person who is happy with herself so you can share your happiness.”

“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”

“It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost….”

“The German who is still free from all Slav or Celtic alloy has a distinctive character and vies with all his equals. When he is allied with other races, provided he has the necessary patience and endurance he always succeeds in becoming, the chief, the directing will, as the husband must be in a household. I have no desire to offend the Slavs, but it is very necessary to recognise that their character has much of the feminine in it: they have charm, intelligence, artifice, address, and often the Germans appear heavy and clumsy beside them. But we always carry the day, and that is why I would like to say to you: when you are doing business with your Slav rivals, even at moments of the most violent anger and in the most critical situations, always retain the profound conviction, the most profound but secret conviction, that you are fundamentally their superiors, and that you always will be so.”

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

“The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”

“Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”

“We will wait for him like a good wife waiting for her husband who is in jail.”

“Do you know what le vice Anglais – the English vice – really is? Not flagellation, not pederasty – whatever the French believe it to be. It's our refusal to admit to our emotions. We think they demean us, I suppose.”

“I love May's first storms:
chuckling, sporting spring
grumbles in mock anger;
young thunder claps.”