“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother
YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsioTKqXfi0
“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“No matter how bad things get, you've got to go on living, even if it kills you.”
Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) Yiddish author and playwright
“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”
Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“Sometimes in life you have to do the hardest things to get somewhere—to change your life.”
Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) American children's writer
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 87; spoken by Mr. Mallon
“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author