"Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest."

-- Carol Bly

#Feelings Quotes #Elation Quotes #Host Quotes

“When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?”
“[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, "I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I just couldn't do it this year."”
“I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.”
“I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?”
“Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.”
“Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.”
“I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?”
“Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.”

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