Addye Nieves Quotes & Sayings

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in. — Mika.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. — Douglas Coupland

In a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success. — Alison Lurie

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went. — Lenny Kravitz

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything. — Jim James

My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me. — Homer

It wasn't long before God made me realise that the true glory is that which is eternal and that, to achieve it, there is no need to perform outstanding deeds. Instead, one must remain hidden and perform one's good deeds so that the right hand knows not what the left hand does. When I read stories about the deeds of the great French heroines - especially of the Venerable Joan of Arc, I longed to imitate them and felt stirred by the same inspiration which moved them. It was then that I received one of the greatest graces of my life, for, at that age, I didn't receive the spiritual enlightenment which now floods my soul. I was made to understand that the glory I was to win would never be seen during my lifetime . . . — John Beevers

Over the course of your life you are actually hundreds of different people. You are a different person at the coffee shop than you are at the bar, and a different person for the dry cleaner than you are for your boyfriend, and a different person at work than you are on vacation. You are nobody in particular. But once somebody finds you and loves you, you have to keep being the person that they love. You want thier love. You need to keep getting it even if it means pretending ... but no one loved her and so she could keep changing. — Jenny Hollowell

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s. — Alice Walker

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate. — Solon

Mines lie buried just beneath the surface of every sentence my mother says. — Lilah Pace

A tiger doesn't proclaim its tigerness; it jumps on its prey — Wole Soyinka

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor. — Friedrich Schiller

My legs! Lord Jesus stop the pain in my legs!"

"Hush John," Florida said. "That's only phantom pain."

"Is it real?" I asked her.

She shrugged. "All pain is real. — Lucia Berlin