226 Area Quotes & Sayings

You rely too much on yo rules, Hannah. You use them as a kind of crutch to hold yourself back from new experiences. You've let these rules control everything you do in your life. — Shana Norris

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches. — John Ridley

The rule of God's kingdom strengthens fulfilment of mandate — Sunday Adelaja

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver. — Luis Federico Leloir

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them. — Benjamin Franklin

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way. — Yayoi Kusama

A novel is a wish list of who you subliminally want to be and can be. Writing is an arrogant pursuit. In the secret heart of every novelist there are two people: a politician and a philosopher certain that he/she knows best while, at the same time, remains an outsider who believes nothing matters much, and few things matter at all. — Chloe Thurlow

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. — Vladimir Lenin

I am yours.
Don't give myself back to me. — Jalaluddin Rumi