James Branch Cabell Quotes
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
-
I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
-
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
-
People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
-
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
-
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
-
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
-
I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
-
Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
-
The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
-
The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
-
I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
-
I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
-
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
-
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
-
It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
-
You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
-
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
-
Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.
-
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
-
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
-
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
