„A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.“

„I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.“

—  Kim Harrison Pseudonym 1966

„The best way to get even is to forget.“

—  Debbie Macomber American writer 1948

„Communicate. Even when it’s uncomfortable. One of the best ways to heal, is simply getting everything out.“

—  Ralph Smart

„When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?
No, rather smile away despair;“

—  John Clare English poet 1793 - 1864

„He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.“

—  E. Lockhart, buch We Were Liars

„The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.“

—  Joe Hill Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World 1879 - 1915

„So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day“

—  Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993

„In a world of fake news, fake history, fake law, fake diplomacy, it is no surprise to encounter fake democracy along the way.“

—  Alfred de Zayas American United Nations official 1947

„The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.“

—  Linus Pauling American scientist 1901 - 1994

„Unlike a human smile, purring cannot be, as far as anyone knows, faked.“

—  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson American writer and activist 1941

„He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.“

—  Zora Neale Hurston, buch Their Eyes Were Watching God

„There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.“

—  Scott Westerfeld American science fiction writer 1963

„I have no time for shallow talk, pointless interactions, fake smiles, and meaningless friendships.“

—  Ralph Smart

„there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it.“

—  Dale Carnegie American writer and lecturer 1888 - 1955

„The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks and get crippled. People lose their way, for one reason or another. It's not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you "sir."“

—  Robert McCammon, buch Boy's Life

„I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

„She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.“

—  Alistair MacLean Scottish novelist 1922 - 1987

„Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!“

—  George Gordon Byron, buch The Bride of Abydos

„The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.“

—  Paulo Coelho, buch The Devil and Miss Prym