Letting Quotes - page 9

Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes, Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people. (Cassandra Clare)
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us. View quote
Jimmy Carter
The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free. View quote
Barbara Boxer
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. View quote
Bill Russell
Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known. View quote
Pete Seeger
I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days. View quote
Terry Gilliam
If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have? View quote
Miranda July
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along. View quote
Edie Brickell
Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done". View quote
Judith McNaught
Reaching in, he wrapped the exposed wires around his fingers and ripped them out. The locks released, letting the door fall open a crack. "That's what we call a Luddite hack.”. (Pat Cadigan)
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The great irony of god games is that letting go is the only way to win. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
What little time left is in this century is rehearsal time for the chief psychological chore of the 21st century: letting go, with dignity. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Letting go at the top is not an act against perfection, but against short-sightedness. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Frank Sinatra was dignified. We don't have a Frank Sinatra, or a Patti Page nowadays. What do we have? Ashlee Simpson instead of Patti Page! I mean, look at those people - like Paris Hilton! Who are all these skanks, man? Little girls are looking up to these girls, and it's so gross. Those girls have no dignity at all, and parents are letting their kids dress up like those skanks. But what else have they got? What are the other choices? Somebody had the nerve to ask me if I wanted to play guitar on Lindsay Lohan's album! She's another one of those 16-year-old actresses, and she's making an album! Like, 'NO! View quote
Jack White
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live. View quote
Frances Hodgson Burnett
You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in. View quote
Richelle Mead
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Now I know I have already lost you. I have lost everything. Even so, I can't let you go forever and allow you to forget me without letting you know that I don't bear you any grudge, that I knew it from the start, I knew that I was going to lose you and that you would never see in me what I see in you. I want you to know that I loved you from the very first day and that I still love you, now more than ever, even if you don't want me to. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are. (Laurell K. Hamilton)
Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else. View quote
Clive Barker
Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my old chores as Speaker of the House. I gave up the second most important job in the Government for one that didn't amount to a hill of beans. I spent eight long years as Mr. Roosevelt's spare tire. I might still be Speaker if I didn't let them elect me Vice-President. View quote
John Nance Garner
Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness. View quote
Nhat Hanh