Berenices Salon Quotes & Sayings

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past. — Anais Nin

In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that the government is not in the oil business. They don't want it in the oil business. They know there is nothing a man in Washington can do to plug a hole a mile down in the gulf.
On the other hand, they demand that the president 'take control.' They demand that he hold press conferences, show leadership, announce that the buck stops here and do something. They want him to emote and perform the proper theatrical gestures so they can see their emotions enacted on the public stage.
They want to hold him responsible for things they know he doesn't control. Their reaction is a mixture of disgust, anger, longing and need. It may not make sense. But it doesn't make sense that the country wants spending cuts and doesn't want cuts, wants change and doesn't want change. — David Brooks

American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain. — Charles M. Schwab

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting. — K.d. Lang

The noise made Kim want to cover her ears, reminding her, as it did, of diarhoettic excretion. — Shaun Hutson

No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through ... You can make a difference in this world. — Demi Lovato

I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!' — Katie Cassidy

The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources
there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion. — Janine Benyus

They regarded each other. Adam fair and cautious, Ronan dark and incendiary. This was Ronan at his most truthful. — Maggie Stiefvater