“You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: The Joys of Love
Attention Scum! (2001), How To Live (2005)
“You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: The Joys of Love
Joan Baez (1941) American singer
Daybreak http://books.google.com/books?id=Imte1JcsQ64C&q=%22You+don't+get+to+choose+how+you're+going+to+die+Or+when+You+can+only+decide+how+you're+going+to+live+Now%22&pg=PA135#v=onepage (1968) <br class="br">Variant or paraphrase: You can't decide how you're going to die. Or when. What you can decide is how you're going to live now.
“If you want me you're going to have to come and get me.”
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
Clare Fischer (1928–2012) American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
Source: As quoted in "Voicing With a Heart"
“You're such a nice boy, what do you want to go off and get killed in the War for?”
Ben Hecht book Miracle in the Rain
Miracle in the Rain (1956)
Screenplays
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
“What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.”
P.G. Wodehouse book Right Ho, Jeeves
Source: Right Ho, Jeeves
Derrick Jensen (1960) American environmentalist
That's not saying that one person having sex is worth the salmon. I'm not saying it's a reason not to act, I'm saying don't be stupid.
Interview with The A Word Magazine, March-April 2005.
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Roberto Bolaño book The Insufferable Gaucho
Source: The Insufferable Gaucho