Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.
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GEORGE ELIOT When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me?
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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CHARLES TAYLOR Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I&...
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ANDREW MCCARTHY I am not talking about living dangerously. Such words are meaningless to me. The toreador does
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JONI MITCHELL When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I ...
MARK TWAIN There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
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SAMUEL BUTLER (1) This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I ...
T.F. HODGE I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
LORD BYRON I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - ...
LILLA CRAWFORD Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me...
ARTHUR MILLER There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minu...
VIV ALBERTINE But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!
AVIJEET DAS I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I wi...
CASSANDRA CLARE I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me t...
GEORGE SHEEHAN My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When people disappoint you never be too offended,for it is only an opportunity for you to verify tha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am
TOM HOPKINS I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.
TOM HOPKINS I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems ...
GABRIEL IGLESIAS Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am h...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to...
STORY MUSGRAVE When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words ar...
JAROD KINTZ What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am...
PHYLICIA RASHAD I realize that there are certain limitations placed upon the right of free speech. I may not be able...
EUGENE DEBS When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when...
HAROLD NICOLSON Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life....
JACK KEVORKIAN There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction mak...
ASGHAR FARHADI What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life...
KATE WINSLET And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his...
BIBLE I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any nation...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any nation...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Try to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what ...
C. S. LEWIS I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
ISLOM KARIMOV I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassion...
GARTH NIX Don't like me for what I am.
Just like me for who I am.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually ...
RIHANNA You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find i...
T.S. ELIOT You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find i...
T.S. ELIOT I do feel relieved. I do feel like I did what I needed to do for myself, and for whoever's out there...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to m...
TIA ARTEMIS Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I m...
NAZIM HIKMET When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found mysel...
PAULO COELHO What was she like?"
I tell the truth.
"She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding...
NICHOLAS SPARKS When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abo...
HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they nev...
C.S. LEWIS She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will ...
JOHN BOYNE The statement "I can not live without you" is simply ludicrous. One is able to live without that cer...
DUY NGUYEN I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any nation...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have already met one million youth and when they grow up what they will say about me is most impor...
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TOM REISS I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really d...
OSCAR WILDE There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
NAPOLEON HILL What I can't figure out is if you know you're a tease and are fuckin' with me or whether you really ...
SIMONE ELKELES Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but ...
LANDON DONOVAN People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, '...
KATIE J. DAVIS I thought I was going to win, and I did not win. There is always next year. I have more people suppo...
BEN GREENBERG I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am
KARL KRAUS There are many people who are behind whatever I've achieved so far. My dad, Daboo Malik, is my m...
ARMAAN MALIK I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ...
C. JOYBELL C. I will never be afraid of what anyone thinks about the way I live my life. Simply because then, I am...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adop...
GEORGE WASHINGTON There are parts of me that are broken. Thank you, they don't need fixing.
There are places and...
MISHI MCCOY Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Sa...
ABHIJIT NASKAR If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that f...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more ...
THOMAS MERTON It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more ...
THOMAS MERTON When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have fail...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so...
DOUGLAS PAGELS I’d rather be hated for who I am…than loved for someone I’m not…I’m definitely not perfect...
TONIA BYERS By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music...
BONO Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not t...
ROY T. BENNETT My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters b...
FORTUNE FEIMSTER For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment exte...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I think about the kind of guy I want to marry, I think I might prefer someone who knows where t...
JILLIAN DODD I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than kn...
ROBERT BURTON I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than know...
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