Anstruther Scotland Quotes & Sayings

I really saw clearly, and for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and cuddles and even mollycoddles a child, but because in an interesting and maybe an eerie and unworldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known. — Maya Angelou

The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices. — David Allen

It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along. — Jami Gertz

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. — George Eliot

I have been asked sometimes what led me to the Persian Gulf, what instinct told me that I could build up a business there. It's really perfectly simple. If you go to the hottest and most uncomfortable place on the map you'll find there's not a lot of competition; — Nevil Shute

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting. — Susan Cain

Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words; sometimes you need to use your hands. — M.F. Moonzajer

I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant theater community. — Katherine McNamara