Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
I wish I could never spend another second talking about cancer and all it does to everyone it surrounds, but unfortunately, that cannot be because of my life.
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.
For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.
I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.
