Way Quotes - Page 718

[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn't stand out. You know, so I actually went out of my way to not look different to the extent I could.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

Happiness can be close by, even if your heart is far away.

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.

Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin

I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.

She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win

I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.

It was likely that no one had been surprised, however, as it was clear that Aline and Mckenna belonged together. There was something invisible and yet irrefutable that made them a couple. Perhaps it was the way both of them stole quick glances at each other when one though the other wasn't looking... glances of wonder and hunger.

The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

The only way to not get criticized is to not do anything.