It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
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LEE SEUNG YEOP Lack is more of an acceptance of it in your life than a condition...you accept it, and it shows up.....
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EVAN ESAR They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if y...
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RANDY NEWMAN The funny thing about money is that you can't take it with you, so don’t try to.
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MICHAEL LEUNIG Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.
N.K. JEMISIN At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Mau...
WILBUR SMITH You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln...
AL FRANKEN Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by...
ERICA JONG Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even ...
BILL VEECK Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're th...
LAURA BENANTI However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your...
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MADS MIKKELSEN You don't get opportunities very often and when you get one and get it taken back, it's a little agg...
TERRY PHILLIPS Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it...
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you'...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But her...
MICHAEL SPECTER I don't think about them very much. I think it's good luck if you get them. But I hope it won't affe...
JUDI DENCH Very often when you look at the moon, you see only a part of it, but you know there is a much larger...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable ...
JUDY PARFITT That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not comp...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Soon this shall pass. People will come and people will go. You either accept or not. Choose what's w...
KELLY KNIGHT Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you cou...
RUFI THORPE The good and the bad things are part of life. Accept it. The bad is a learning process, you will sur...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR The funny thing about destiny is that you can't predict it, and you can't prevent it.
- Leslie
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STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a...
SALLY PHILLIPS By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
VICTORIA WOODHULL If you have not learnt anything, but have learnt one thing that the Goal of life is to be Happy, you...
RVM Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you ...
TERENCE WINTER . . . the waste even in a fortunate life, the isolation of a life rich in intimacy, cannot but be fe...
WILLIAM EMPSON Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a danger...
LEMONY SNICKET If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of live...
MARY OLIVER If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny abo...
WILL ARNETT SETTLE FOR THE BEST: You get what you settle for. If you settle for less, you always get less. If yo...
LORRIN L. LEE You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???
What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about i...
SRIKUMAR RAO I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, yo...
BRIAN ENO The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of actin...
JACQUELINE BISSET If you refuse to talk about already decided cases, the burden sir, is on you,
CHUCK SCHUMER If you refuse to talk about already decided cases, the burden, sir, is on you.
CHARLES SCHUMER I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think ...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, ...
BILL PAXTON To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the
personality of the artist; and if that is ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ...
KARL ROVE Julia had been very very good for a very long time, and the funny thing about that was, if you're to...
LEV GROSSMAN Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but...
TESSA THOMPSON If you have not learnt anything, but have learnt one thing that the Goal of life is to be Happy, you...
RVM Funny thing about humility. Just when you think you've got it, you've lost it.
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W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and wo...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is er...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty o...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is er...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man w...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Life isn't long enough for love and art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to th...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefo...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesth...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for noth...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by butteri...
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