quotes about moving on in life

History is the daughter of time. ~Lucien Febvre, The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century



Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. ~Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994



Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. ~Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985



If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler



Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor



If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven�t been born yet. ~Neil Simon



The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall



Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey



England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. ~Robert Benchley England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. ~Robert Benchley



Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. ~Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974



It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner



The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk



Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~William James, The Principles of Psychology



Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection. ~Author Unknown



We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. ~Gerard Vanderhaar



The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~Chuck Palahniuk



Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar. ~George Lundberg



It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. ~Nicholas Johnson



She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. ~Evelyn Waugh



When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner