Anna Varney Quotes & Sayings

But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself? I thought honesty made people strong. — Stephanie Perkins

Our problem as Americans
at least, among my race and gender
is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives. — Parker J. Palmer

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb. — Jim Carroll

In this present body he hadn't been loved, and he found almost nothing to love about himself. — Ann Brashares

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non. — Louis MacNeice

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket. — Ian Rankin

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming. — Benjamin Franklin

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost us the election, and yet if we were to have them killed, we would be the ones to go to jail. That's democracy for you! — Winston Churchill

I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team. — Ruchi Sanghvi

I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens — Harry Winston

I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them. — Laurie Notaro

Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility. — Adyashanti

Duane pulled a chair out for me and claimed the seat adjacent as I sat. Or, I tried to sit. I didn't know quite how to sit. Sitting suddenly felt weird. I was super-conscious of my limbs. — Penny Reid

Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence - call it what you will - is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness. — Matthew Flinders