quotes about moving on from someone

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929



Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. ~Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)



He struggles to exude authority. He furrows his brow, trying to look more sagacious, but he ends up looking as if he has indigestion. Appearing confused at his own speech, he seems like a first-grade actor in a production of James and the Giant Peach. Are his blinks Morse code for "Oh, man, don't let that teleprompter break?" ~Maureen Dowd, about George W. Bush



Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire



When you first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are), and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro... when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" - then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. ~Thomas Lux



It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ~David Ormsby Gore



It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~Seneca



Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. ~P.J. O'Rourke



It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary



By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~Thomas Merton



Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline



I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa



The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again. ~Korman's Law



John Adams: "It's like having your cake and eating it too."



We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld



I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere! ~Jean Favre



Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ~Henry David Thoreau