Failing Quote by Jane Smiley

“... when it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all…

— Jonathan Evison

“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Be sure of your conviction, but not so sure that it overwhelms your humanity. No conviction should be ultimate, except the conviction of humanity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“There’s a part of all of us that longs to know that even what’s weakest about us is still redeemable and can ultimately count…

— Fred Rogers

“Then most our trouble still when most admired, And still the more we give, the more required; Whose fame with pains we guard, but…

— Alexander Pope

“Just like I was hooked the first time I worked a homicide. I knew then that I was different from everyone else, set apart…

— James R. Benn

“It seems we struggle for a lifetime to become whole. Few of us ever do ... Most of us end up going out the…

— Darren Aronofsky; Kent Williams

“We lost our courage as a people. Sure, some people still had it, but as a people, as a group where we all had…

— Rick Wiedeman

“Life's uncontrollable, unpredictable, and a hell of a mess. Without fear, loss, and the wrong choice we made, we wouldn't be who we were.…

— J.C. Reed

“I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that…

— Saul Bellow

“We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we…

— T.E. Lawrence

“And we shall all carry on with our hearts set on the next best thing...because we know how we have lived and understand what…

— Isabel Aanya Leigh