"I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame."

-- Leighton Meester

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Shame Quotes

“We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.”
“Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.”
“The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.”
“One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2010). “The Writing Life”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I hate luxury. I exercise moderationâ€¦It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.”
“When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."”

Source : Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.364, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.”
“Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.”

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