Side Quotes - Page 3

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.

Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.

The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

I just want to be an ordinary girl.

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

You can't play "How will you do it... if you are on my place..." - Now you feel comfortable from that side... you feel that it's right from your side... so you put that as a peace in the recipe and some extra ingredients you add and look you just created the best lie as being in my state.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

So when my cards are side of... I'm losing I need to suicide??

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.

Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.

When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas-that's what my grandma taught me.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

Pioneers may be picturesque figures but they are often rather lonely ones.

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

I have been very happy very rich very beautiful much adulated very famous and very unhappy.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other who he assumes to have perfect vision.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality one is completely alone doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.

When you don't have any money the problem is food. When you have money it's sex. When you have both it's health. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

Misfortunes come to all men.

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

If I had my life to live over I wish I could be a great pianist or something.