Quotes of: When-all-else-fails Keyword

Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you co...

Bleak House

I could not have desired her enough. She was a living soul and could be loved forever. Like every living creature, she carried in her the presence of eternity. That was why, as she grew older, I saw in her always the child she had been, and why, look...

Jayber Crow

The god abandons Antony When at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passing with exquisite music, with voices ― Do not lament your fortune that at last subsides, your life’s work that has failed, your schemes that have prove...

Selected Poems

...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative—the purpose of fiction is not to replace life anymore than it is mean...

Michael Copperman

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.

Golden

People who always want to be happy and pursue it above all else are some of the most miserable people in the world.

Boundaries in Marriage

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

Jane Badler

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Robert Browning

It's normal to dream about anything at all. It's not normal to dream someone else's dreams." -Arthur Mentis

After the Golden Age

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

Hamlet

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.

The Return

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

Lock and Key

Emotions like these didn't happen to regular, everyday people. They couldn't or else the entire world would be fornicating all the time.

Love Potions

God is one and there is but one God — all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand...

The Mists of Avalon

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.

In the Shadow of the Mountains

It’s you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I’m going to take care of everything else.

Undefeated

Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.

XVI

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

Philip Zimbardo

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

Richard Dawkins

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

Ron Livingston

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.

Ryan Lilly