Bernardine Center Quotes & Sayings

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. — Orville Wright

And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before! — Tennessee Williams

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars. — V.S. Ramachandran

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107) — Dorothy Allison

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind. — Gautama Buddha

Yes," she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career - no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature their own, to foster and do good to. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today — Ismail Serageldin

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force. — Max Eastman

No one can quit smoking for you, or make you want to change your life. No one can make you do anything that you don't want to do. — Gudjon Bergmann

A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow. — Amit Abraham

Christ in us must take dominion over the earth ... The next move of God cannot occur until Christ in us takes dominion. — Earl Paulk

Victorious. I feel that is why I did all the training, why I make the sacrifices, that is why I got into the shape I am in. I feel I have won, that's millions more coming my way, I feel great. — Conor McGregor

The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest
not a friendly Californian forest, either, but an old Transylvanian forest, a forest full of wolves and witches and dagger-wielding bandits all waiting just beyond moonlight's reach. — Robin Sloan

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. — Mattie Stepanek

It's the little things she needs someone for, like someone to hold her hand at the end of a long day, or someone to watch stupid comedies with, or someone to curl up with on the couch on a lazy Sunday morning as she reads the newspaper and eats her cereal. Which probably means she doesn't 'need' someone in the strictest sense, although at the end of a long day, or while watching a stupid comedy, or on a lazy Sunday morning, having someone would be very much appreciated. — Marla Miniano