“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
Alice Sebold book Lucky
Variant: You save yourself or you remain unsaved
Source: Lucky
“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
Alice Sebold book Lucky
Variant: You save yourself or you remain unsaved
Source: Lucky
“Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.”
Rick Riordan (1964) American writer
Source: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide
Robert A. Heinlein book The Number of the Beast
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXVIII : “—under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid—”, p. 377
“In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.”
Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948) German field marshal
September 1938. Quoted in "Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance" - Page 128 - by Joachim C. Fest - 1997
“It is impossible to do anything for anyone.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 317
“I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.”
The Natural (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003) p. 149 http://books.google.com/books?id=wCWhegoGUxwC&q=%22I+don't+think+you+can+do+anything+for+anyone+without+giving+up+something+of+your+own%22&pg=PA149#v=onepage. (originally published 1952)
“Weakness never got anyone anywhere.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me