“Writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.” — Lang leav Copy Share Image
“In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think , the least of the consolation… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“She did not want to be a consolation prize. Be pitied or a distraction.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
“I wish you could see yourself through my eyes. Every woman who’s met you wants a shot at you. How could you… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all… — Lloyd D. Newell Copy Share Image
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Justice didn’t compensate for the loss of human life. Justice was an intellectual concept, inevitably trumped by emotion. Justice was the word… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“He didn't want to say Let's just be friends or I hope we can stay friends, because that made friendship sound like… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“You are unwilling to pay that price, even knowing that the consolation prize is not only to learn every philosophy that has… — Krisi Keley Copy Share Image
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“People often attempt to compensate for this loss of hope by comforting themselves with “consolation prizes”: easy but self-destructive habits like too… — Richard O'Connor Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“He had entered into every relationship in his life in good faith, reveling in the breathless flush of new love for as… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“Although I never found a church where I felt completely at home again, I made a new home in the world. I… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“His consolation prize was a hat. A battered fedora that looked as if it had blown off of Humphrey Bogart during the… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
“In February 2010, Ad Age reported that Wal-Mart had consolidated its stocked range of food bags from three brands, Ziploc, Glad and… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, I used to watch that show, sitting on the couch in my pajamas and wishing more than… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“Each morning fog rolls over the bay and caresses the Golden Gate, the most picturesque bridge in the world. In the evenings… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
“I was trying to apologize,” she said, relief and humor easing into her eyes and curving her lips. “You didn’t answer my… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“SALLY Harry, I can’t do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“Like a consolation prize, the broken heart is often granted wisdom.” — Barbara Avon Copy Share Image
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“Beautiful gay men are God's gift to women. They're like a consolation prize for ...well, for everything else about being a woman.” — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“My mouth fell open. “Is this real life? You’re giving me your dog?” He chuckled. “Yeah. My dog that was supposed to… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“You guys come from a really small town, and people talk,” Caleb shrugged. “I can’t go into a store in Covington without… — Josie Leigh Copy Share Image
“Does [your music] have to be a job? And as for your actual job...do you have to think of [it] as a… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
“think about it. you're playing survivor with all the people you love. some, by sheer luck of genetic lottery, end up on… — Benjamin Smythe Copy Share Image
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