“Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.”
Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist
Source: Gimme a Call
As quoted in The Fourth — And By Far The Most Recent — 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said : Many Given Heightened Piquancy by Nineteenth-Century Line Cuts (1990) edited by Robert Byrne, 32
“Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.”
Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist
Source: Gimme a Call
“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen <!--accessed: November 17, 2009--> <br class="br">Variant: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. <br class="br">Context: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Out of Habit
Song lyrics
Variant: Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.
You know it doesn't seem fair,
That I'm living for something I can't even define.
And there you are right there, in the mean time.
“Just two from the over, Anderson tighter than Andy Fordham's watch strap.”
Ben Dirs journalist
England v Sri Lanka, 2007-04-04, BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6521515.stm,
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
TV Interview for Channel 4 A plus 4 (15 October 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=105764, referring to the Brighton bombing in which the IRA attempted to assassinate her. <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
“Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
To Mr. Pope, epistle I, l. 277.