Quote by William Boyd Download Open image ““It amazes me what compromises we happily live with. We limp along, patching up, improvising.”” — William Boyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We always want to fix things for the people who matter. Can’t, mostly, but we want to.” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“I showed up, shut up, and made it work. But it felt like compromise. And if you ask me, compromise feels like amputation.” — Tiffany Debartolo Copy Share Image
“Maybe that is the key to surviving change: embracing it, however cumbersomely, or gracefully, one can.” — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
“I've become convinced that our lives are shaped less by the mistakes we make than when we make them. There is less elasticity now.… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“there are no quick fixes. If we want our lives to change, we have to do the work.” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“Life is messy. The only thing we can control is how we respond to what happens to us and move forward.” — Laurie Buchanan, PhD Copy Share Image
“...when life demands to break through and bust the seams of chaos, you can´t stop it. It goes on.” — Jennifer Murgia Copy Share Image
“Welcome to the land of the living sweetheart. Everyone's messed up. It's what makes us human.” — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
“Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle.” — Bishop T.D. Jakes Copy Share Image
“Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child’s fringe has something suspect about him,” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image