Alfonsina Strada Quotes & Sayings

The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase. — Melanie Klein

I don't understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It's not like it's a kidney!" Colette laughed. — Kevin Kwan

You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory. — Alphonsus Rodriguez

There had to be one universe - just this one - where we don't end up together. Here and now just happens to be it. — Gaby Dunn

Someone asked me recently - what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I'm not falling for that one again, wife. — Mark Watson

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had. — Allegra Huston

I try to understand you. You look so civilized. Not a hint of the criminal in you. Perhaps, though, something of the Nazi criminal. That super honest, loyal citizen who checked the number of soap boxes. He would take great care not to make mistakes in figures (four, less than four), but he does not question whether the soap is made from human fat. — Marvin Hoffman

Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners. — Mamata Banerjee

It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes. — Kate Williams

You must stop editing
or you'll never finish anything. Begin with a time-management decision that indicates when the editing is to be finished: the deadline from which you construct your revisionary agenda. Ask yourself, 'How much editing time is this project worth?' Then allow yourself that time. If it's a 1,000-word newspaper article, it's worth editing for an hour or two. Allow yourself no more. Do all the editing you want, but decide that the article will go out at the end of the allotted time, in the form it then possesses. — Kenneth Atchity

I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That's why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline. — Andy Kindler

As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances. — James Allen

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary. — Joyce Rachelle