There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.
If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption. ' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
I started out as a television news anchor but I wasn't very good at it. I think I was too positive. I wanted to begin every newscast by saying, 'Good evening, in the news tonight. . . everything's great! Go to sleep. We'll let you know if anything important comes up. '
All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.
I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.