Arisxandra Britain Quotes & Sayings

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken. — Ayn Rand

The oak was, of course, a great stealer of the surrounding pasture - its only value to provide shade for the livestock - but it was a magnificent tree. It had been there at least as long as Luxtons had owned the land. To have removed it would have been unthinkable (as well as a forbidding practical task). It simply went with the farm. No one taking in that view for the first time could have failed to see that the tree was the immovable, natural companion of the farmhouse, or, to put it another way, that so long as the tree stood, so must the farmhouse. And no mere idle visitor - especially if they came from a city and saw that tree on a summer's day - could have avoided the simpler thought that it was a perfect spot for a picnic. — Graham Swift

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble — Dmitry Medvedev

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it. — Soren Kierkegaard

This guy [Tyson Fury] really wants to prove himself in the ring and confirm what he keeps telling everyone, that he's the best in the world. — Wladimir Klitschko

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me. — Brigid Lowry

Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written. — M.G. Marsh

Two things will paralyze our creativity faster than anything else: 1. We haven't defined success. 2. We haven't defined failure. — Todd Henry

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts. — Adam Davidson

Momentarily a wing of zodiacal radiance could be seen, like a halo over the rising fire-disk. — Poul Anderson

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It is why you where born and how you become most truly alive — Oprah Winfrey

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism. — Michael Gove

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. — Marcel Proust

One Saturday morning walking to the farmers' market with my lover she tells me she needs to look like a man on the street. She hates binding her breasts. Hates having breasts, hates not passing. I press her. I ask her, but what do you feel like when you're naked in bed with me? Do you like your body then? She is quiet. Later she tells me she had a dream. Her mother brought home a bottle of medicine from the hospital for her. The doctor says she has to take it. The medicine is testosterone.

On Shabbat I remember to pray for enough space inside of me to hold all the darkness of the night and all the sunlight of the day. I pray for enough space for transformations as miraculous as the shift from day to night.

Later when that lover has changed his name and an ex-boyfriend has come out to me as a lesbian I go to visit my best friend's sister-turned-brother-turned-sister-again and she tells me about the blessing of having many names and using them all at once. — M.J. Kaufman

My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. — Lauren Bacall