Abuse By Proxy Quotes & Sayings

Every idea that occurred to him, because he became familiar with it in seconds, came with the fear of having stolen it. — Clarice Lispector

My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other people. I find that "Oh my God." Every time the music is slow I feel that people are going to get up and go out. You get this nervousness. But, to my surprise, people starting singing the song even before it came in. They started singing along a week later, after release, which was very cool. — A.R. Rahman

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name. — Jamie Farr

Wisdom is your weapon in the earthly realm;
prayer is your weapon in the spirit realm. — Matshona Dhliwayo

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences. — Jeremy Larner

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. — Gene Tierney

You just never know when you're going into eternity. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. Add a door, add two windows. Think of putting a tree in the front yard, and then decide against it because branches aren't worth the trouble. — David Sedaris

The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God a sort of being like ourselves, but bigger and better with likes and dislikes similar to our own. — Karen Armstrong

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance. — Helen Lawrenson

Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows — Itzik Amiel

I dream of books! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hence, the less government we have, the better,
the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson