Kellie > Kellie's Quotes

“It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation”
― Rob Gilbert

“We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Life is a book and you are its author. You detemine its plot and pace and you--only you--turn its pages.”
― Beth Mende Conny

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“My tongue had probably earned about 20 million Frequent Flyer Miles to rush my immortal impudent soul to a special torture chamber in purgatory”
― Dorothea Frank

“At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent.”
― Barbara Bush, Reflections: Life After the White House

“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

“Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

“Do you know why God invented writers? Because he loves a good story. And he doesn't give a damn about the words. Words are the curain we've hung between him and our true selves. Try not to think about the words. Don't strin for the perfect sentence. There's no such thing. Writing si guesswork. Every sentence is an educated guess, the readers as much as yours.”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar: A Memoir

“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”
― John Irving, Until I Find You

“It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar: A Memoir

“History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar: A Memoir

“It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want to look around and hope to see a book that will strike their fancy. And then, being bright enough not to trust the publisher's blurb, they will ask the book clerk the three questions: (1) What is it about? (2) Have you read it? (3) Was it any good?”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”
― Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin