Kate Franklin > Kate's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 73
« previous 1 3
sort by

  • #1
    Markus Zusak
    “A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
    IN THE DICTIONARY
    Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
    often deciphered by children”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #2
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #4
    Dorothy Parker
    “I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #6
    Sherry Argov
    “Relationship Principle 11
    It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.”
    Sherry Argov, Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
    Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

  • #10
    Coco Chanel
    “My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #11
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #12
    Suzanne Finnamore
    “I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?”
    Suzanne Finnamore

  • #13
    Suzanne Finnamore
    “They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.”
    Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

  • #14
    Coco J. Ginger
    “When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.”
    Jamie Weise

  • #15
    Coco J. Ginger
    “…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.”
    Jamie Weise

  • #16
    Nicholas Sparks
    “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #17
    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

  • #18
    Andrew Carnegie
    “Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself”
    Andrew Carnegie

  • #19
    Victoria Schwab
    “Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
    Victoria Schwab, Vicious

  • #20
    “I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.
    THerei s nothing else that so kills the ambitions ofa person as criticism from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my appreciation and lavish in my praise”
    Charles Schwab

  • #21
    “I have yet to find the person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.”
    Charles Schwab

  • #22
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #23
    Shonda Rhimes
    “Saying yes . . . saying yes is courage. Saying yes is the sun. Saying yes is life.”
    Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

  • #24
    Andrea Gibson
    “I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #25
    Andrea Gibson
    “and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath
    the first time his fingers touched the keys
    the same way a soldier holds his breath
    the first time his finger clicks the trigger.
    We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #26
    Andrea Gibson
    “Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #27
    Shonda Rhimes
    “I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible. When I really think about it, I realize the culprit is the language generally used to praise women.”
    Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes

  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    Mahatma Gandhi



Rss
« previous 1 3