Bridgette's quotes

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"It's always the people who don't want things who get them."
— Candace Bushnell (One Fifth Avenue)

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"That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better."
— Candace Bushnell (One Fifth Avenue)

9 people liked it

"changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!"
— Eric Jerome Dickey (Liar's Game)

6 people liked it

"a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!"
— Eric Jerome Dickey (Liar's Game)

4 people liked it

"Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

tags: humor
464 people liked it

"A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night"
— James Patterson

98 people liked it

"You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone."
— Queen Latifah

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"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
— Nora Roberts

90 people liked it

"Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure."
— Nora Roberts (High Noon)

tags: dates, humor
29 people liked it

""You can't edit a blank page" "
— Nora Roberts

tags: nora, roberts, writing
19 people liked it

"You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread."
— Nora Roberts

17 people liked it

""I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.""
— Nora Roberts (Face the Fire)

15 people liked it

"She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. "
— Nora Roberts (Key of Knowledge)

11 people liked it

"Girl, if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
— Nora Roberts (Tears of the Moon)

tags: inspirational
7 people liked it

"I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me."
— Nora Roberts

9 people liked it

"I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want! "
— Nora Roberts (Treasures)

4 people liked it

"Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy."
— Nora Roberts (Vision in White)

11 people liked it

""Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't
have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being
down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it
– doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we
really want to do." "
— Terry McMillan

4 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,969 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,671 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
19,346 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,776 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
12,212 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,788 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,693 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,924 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
10,084 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,876 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,953 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,736 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
6,223 people liked it

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