It Will Be Beautiful. Quotes
Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.
He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.
He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.
But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.
It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.
The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.
She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.
The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.
their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.
Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.
Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty.
A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.
Is kissing you generally considered a joyful affair?" -
Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.
We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.
It's like the seasons. When they start, you're one kind of person, and then when they end, you're somebody different.
If this is really it...if you're really done with me...will you let me hold you tonight? - Travis
She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.
I'm the parent. It's my job to be here for you, not the other way around.
I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it.
We're conduits for the universe's desire to think about itself.
There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to.
Some choices are harder than they appear. You can never say yes to one thing without saying no to another.
Life's too short to play it safe sometimes. (If he feels something special about Emma, he should go for it.)
People are likely to act based on their emotions and then backward-rationalize. Because women have highly developed emotional circuits, they are especially susceptible to this.
Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.
Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt.All boys smell bad I say and she nods her head like we have just figured out something very important.
DANTE: And what if you found out you were right? What if it meant that I could hurt you?RENEE: I would not say that I'm not scared. Everyone has the ability to hurt. It's the choice that matters.
Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.
Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect.
He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.
And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.
- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.
Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.
She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.
No, I can't die because there are too many jackasses falling over themselves to take my place! I may live forever just to spite them!
This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.
Link says if a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it’s jewelry.
Vegas changed people, creating monsters and broken men. It was easy to let the lights and stolen dreams seep into your blood.
Sunrise, sunset, changes right before my eyes, but your vision stays forever in my heart
I’ve seen and done things that will give you nightmares, but only you, Julia, only you have the power to bring me to my knees.
I know you deserve better than me. You think I don’t know that? But if there was any woman made for me … it’s you.
The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.
I'll see you tomorrow, Mare. You know you want to see my ring.""And your tat, " she said, a smile in her voice.
Earth is our only citadel in the universe