Ever After Quotes

• I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.

  Cory Monteith

  Children, Important, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Life, Dream

  Emily Bronte, Annabella Bloom (2010). “Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.128, Adams Media

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• [on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

  Nora Ephron

  Movie, Weekend, Optimism

  The Los Angeles Times Interview, July 27, 1989.

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• And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

  Piper Laurie

  Real, Should Have, Ifs

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• Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

  Alexander Pope

  Strength, Time, Passion

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228

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• life without love, is no life at all

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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• I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Doors, He Man

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• Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

  Edmund Muskie

  Communication, Speaking Spanish, Silence

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• Who are you and what have you done with my brother?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Brother, Turtles, Done

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• I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

  Robert E. Lee

  Surrender, Thousand, Dies

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• I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

  Emily Bronte

  Inspirational, Dream, Altered

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.424, Penguin

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• In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it.

  Steven Wright

  Hard Work, Successful, Way

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• We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Teacher, Teaching, May

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• I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

  Mercedes McCambridge

  People, Another Chance, Next

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• For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

  Thomas More

  People, Suffering, Thieves

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.24, Bibliolis Books

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• I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Cute Life, Want, Now And Then

  Song: Happily Ever After, Album: Banana Wind

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• I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

  Cat Stevens

  Justice, People, Common Sense

  "A cat in a wild world" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2004.

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Adversity, Stronger

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• After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

  Louie Gohmert

  Change, Leadership, Hopeful

  "Texas Rep. Gohmert to challenge Boehner for House speaker post". www.foxnews.com. January 4, 2015.

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• He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.

  Nathaniel Chapman

  Fighting, Fate, Successful

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• I never got in a conflict. I didn't want Don Shula to say a word to me at all. My play emphasized that. He couldn't get me for anything or whatever. After that we were ok. I just didn't like the way they used me at the end of the 1963 season going in 1964. I felt that they played games with me.

  Lenny Moore

  Conflict

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Islands, Air

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• I opened a book and in I strode.
  Now nobody can find me.
  I've left my chair, my house, my road,
  My town and my world behind me.
  I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
  I've swallowed the magic potion.
  I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
  And dived in a bottomless ocean.
  I opened a book and made some friends.
  I shared their tears and laughter
  And followed their road with its bumps and bends
  To the happily ever after.
  I finished my book and out I came.
  The cloak can no longer hide me.
  My chair and my house are just the same,
  But I have a book inside me.

  Julia Donaldson

  Kings, Laughter, Ocean

  Julia Donaldson (2015). “Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mean, Forever, Lucky

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• Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother, Children, Women

  Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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