Jillian Lauren quotes

“Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.”
-- Jillian Lauren

Source : Jillian Lauren (2011). “Pretty: A Novel”, p.31, Penguin

#Lasts Quotes #Cleaning Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.”
-- Jillian Lauren

Source : Jillian Lauren (2010). “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem”, p.62, Penguin

#Girl Quotes #War Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.”
-- Jillian Lauren

Source : Jillian Lauren (2010). “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem”, p.68, Penguin

#Swimming Quotes #Over You Quotes #Arms Quotes

“I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.”
-- Jillian Lauren

Source : Jillian Lauren (2011). “Pretty: A Novel”, p.101, Penguin

#Waiting Quotes #Looks Quotes #Next Quotes

“I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet...I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be.”
-- Jillian Lauren

#Party Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press

“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

“Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.”

“From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.”

“in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.”

“My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.”

“Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.”

Source : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, Donald T. Regan, Caspar W. Weinberger, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (1988). “Iran-Contra investigation: joint hearings before the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, One Hundredth Congress, first session, 100-10, July 30, 31, and August 3, 1987 : testimony of Donald T. Regan and Caspar W. Weinberger”

“Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.”

“The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.”

“Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.”