Backfires Person Quotes & Sayings

Learning to live in the spirit of prayer hour by hour decorates your life with insight and blessings — Ikechukwu Joseph

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it. — Simon McBurney

But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?
To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there. — Donna Tartt

If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor. — Bryant McGill

Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels. — Jane Hirshfield

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives? — Steven Wright

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. — Meister Eckhart

It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar. — Robert H. Jackson

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question. — Dean Kamen

Using guilt, fear or any other negative emotion to try to change someone's behavior backfires 100% of the time. If you want someone to do something for you or for themselves, the most important thing to remember is they have to want to do it. No positive outcome will ever be achieved by tearing another person apart or kicking them while they are down. If you truly want to help someone, conveying to them what a positive impact they've had in your life, is a great place to start. — D.S. Luca

I'll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back. — Sylvia Day

One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car. — Beverly Lewis

I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often. — Elizabeth Banks

Delight in the scenery of each day. — Douglas Pagels