Arious Ward Quotes & Sayings

My God, no wonder people like being tied up. — Cherise Sinclair

Naturally, she had enemies. Her success, her sex, her racial origin and her bohemian extravagance reminded the puritanical why actors used to be buried in unhallowed ground. And over the decades her acting style, once so original, inevitably dated, since naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel. If the magic always worked for some - Ellen Terry called her "transparent as an azalea" and compared her stage presence to "smoke from a burning paper" - others were less kind. Turgenev, though a Francophile and himself a dramatist, found her "false, cold, affected," and condemned her "repulsive Parisian chic. — Julian Barnes

Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to make the usual agnostic approach . . . and found himself compulsively following his legal training, being an honest advocate in spite of himself, attempting to support a religious belief he did not hold but which was believed by most human beings. He found that, willy-nilly, he was attorney for the orthodoxies of his own race against - he wasn't sure what. An unhuman viewpoint. — Robert A. Heinlein

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness. — Jerry Saltz

I'm not sure anyone goes through a cancer scare unchanged. I know it changed me in so many ways. But I was fortunate to have had a rare cancer that's slow-growing and one that allowed me to skip the chemical cocktails that would have put me into early menopause. — Susan McBride

Sympathy is a sweet thing. — Louisa May Alcott

Philosopher Jean Baudrillard made a similar observation about the use of material goods as symbols of immaterial values. He noted that any given material object has two kinds of value: it has use value (the amount of utility which can be derived from the good), and it has sign value (a value based on what the object means to the person who owns it.) Advertisers constantly attempt to increase the amount that people will pay for products by infusing them with artificial sign value. Emotional branding, for example, is the practice of using images to link a product with a positive emotional state, so that people will unthinkingly purchase the product when they crave the emotion. — Melinda Selmys

Get into the habit of rewarding the intellectual exertion your child puts into a given task rather than his or her native intellectual resources. — John Medina

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. — Mark Twain

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives. — Timothy Keller

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again". — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When the sun is a bike ride away, I will hear it. It will sound like wind in treetops. I will awaken. — Jerry Spinelli

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age. — Victoria Beckham