Alimov Alisher Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to say anything about my kids ... but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name! — Robert Orben

When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they're special. Even superior. — Carol S. Dweck

To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is unjust. I always say, "We are all people living with AIDS." It's not like you can avoid it. It's part of our world. — Edwidge Danticat

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. — Robert Browning

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been. — Jojo Moyes

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time. — Richard Widmark

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. — Jules Renard

I want to keep her safe, shelter her from all this ugliness.
Just keep her. Forever. She's mine. Mine to protect. — Kristen Callihan

Being average means to settle for less than you truly want and are capable of, and to struggle for your entire life. — Hal Elrod

Constance did not have a bun. She didn't need one. She more or less was a bun: neat and contained, and then so tumultuous when unleashed. — Margaret Atwood

And that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am I? — R. Scott Bakker