Quotes of James Thurber

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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

- James Thurber

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“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON. ”

- John Paul Warren

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi