American Street Fabiola Quotes & Sayings

Don't be so hard on yourself," I try to tell him. "It's nothing to be ashamed of." But he's not listening and I'm wondering when I became a motivational speaker. When I made the switch from hating myself to accepting myself. When it became okay for me to choose my own life. — Tahereh Mafi

I stared at him. David, that's prison movies, not zombie movie. — Jesse Petersen

Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only place it hasn't happened is D.C. — Ben Quayle

Keep reminding yourself over and over that this is what you want, and you'll soon find that the more you want, the less you're willing to put up with what you don't. — Sophia Amoruso

Wit defies death
but death defines wit — David Giannini

The Cunning Little Vixen, in which a fox is caught by a hunter and kept in a farmyard with the other animals. He keeps her because he loves her, despite the fact she is destructive, and there is a value for her too in his attention, though its consequence is her captivity. But her nature drives her to seek the wild, and one day she escapes the farmyard and finds her way back into the forest; but instead of feeling liberated she is terrified, for having lived in the farmyard most of her life she has forgotten how to be free. — Rachel Cusk

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind. There is, in the very feeling of those passions, something harsh, jarring, and convulsive, something that tears and distracts the breast, and is altogether destructive of that composure and tranquillity of mind which is so necessary to happiness, and which is best promoted by the contrary passions of gratitude and love. — Adam Smith

I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically. — Daryl Wein

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. — Barry Goldwater

A theme song even played in my head when I felt the big T getting close. Four Kicks was that song, and it cranked up to full volume with my first glance at him. — R.K. Lilley

I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call. — Deb Caletti

I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time. — John Schneider

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy. — Oscar Wilde

Each and every one of us is a leader. Some of us just don't know it yet. — Umair Haque

Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. — Ovid