Alterations By Irma Sanchez Quotes & Sayings

Who was Greg and why was he biting Nina? In fact, how did he get close enough to Nina in order to bite her before she bit him first? — Dakota Cassidy

The function of education, then, is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but to be yourself all the time. And this is a most difficult thing to do: whether you are ugly or beautiful, whether you are envious or jealous, always to be what you are, but understand it. To be yourself is very difficult, because you think that what you are is ignoble, and that if you could only change what you are into something noble it would be marvellous; but that never happens. Whereas, if you look at what you actually are and understand it, then in that very understanding there is a transformation. So freedom lies, not in trying to become something different, nor in doing whatever you happen to feel like doing, nor in following the authority of tradition, of your parents, of your guru, but in understanding what you are from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do you want me to beat the shit outta him when we get there?" Tate asked, sounding serious and I blinked at him.
"What?"
"I will," Tate stated.
"You ... you'll ... beat the shit out of him?"
"Say the word, babe."
"Would ... wouldn't you get arrested for something like that?" I asked.
"Probably," he answered.
"Then maybe you shouldn't," I decided.
"Your call," he muttered — Kristen Ashley

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons. — Andrew Sean Greer

Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed. — Isaac Asimov

I just hate that gay role models are supposed to be just like straight people, as if even straight people are like that. — Paul Rudnick

We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions. — Costa-Gavras

Life goes on with or without you! — Joe Bob Newman

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you. — Timothy Keller

It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men — Elizabeth Strout