Actionable Per Se Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn. — Cathy Marie Buchanan

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory.
~Ulquiorra — Tite Kubo

When you are pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your lifet rying to figure out how to keep her close enough for for comfort. — Jodi Picoult

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. — Jimmy Buffett

Trant's deep need to climb ever upward, crushing anyone in his path, the qualities, while making Trant an interesting associate at times, at others made him decidedly predictable and boring. After all, a ladder contained a single directional path. Someone like Trant rarely tried the twisting vines, tree branches, and handholds to the side. — Anne Mallory

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. — Barack Obama

As long as we do our jobs and aren't making out in the supply closets they're pretty good about letting couples have the same shifts together."
"Hmmm. I don't know. The supply closet thing might be a deal breaker. I like pushing you into dark corners and doing wicked things to you." I shook my head and she laughed. — Lacey Weatherford

We all have faced fearful times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence. — S.D. Lawendowski

Einstein once said that if you have one hand on a hot plate and one hand in a freezer, on average you will be comfortable. This is what we do in love, I suppose. Once you have been really burned, you put your hand in the freezer, so that you don't get scalded. It seems the reasonable thing to do. — Mark D'Arbanville

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face. — Rob Lowe

If anyone should be kind, understanding, accepting, loving to their fellow outcasts, it's you. All of you. You are the guardians of the secrets of the universe, beloved of worlds most would never dream of, much less see. . . can't you see where you owe it to yourselves to be kind? — Seanan McGuire

There might be some brilliant intentionality in it all, that holiness was created to stand in mankind's filth to lift mankind out of that very filth. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Here's my lesson to you: Don't wish for a knight in shining armor. You'll just end up spending most of your time doing lots of polishing. And that armor tarnishes faster than any other substance on earth; instead, spend that time on yourself. — Christine Zolendz