Billingham 335 Quotes & Sayings

In the period of dictatorship, surrounded on all sides by enemies, we sometimes manifested unnecessary leniency and unnecessary softheartedness.
Krylenko,
speech at the Promparty trial — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You know your testimony is strong when your roots are so deep that other people's storms will never knock you over. — Shannon L. Alder

Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not. — Alexander McQueen

The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people
including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh
struggled with depression, anxiety, and despair. They paid a heavy price to wrest their gifts from the clutches of non-Being. But this is what true artists do: they make their own frayed lives the cable for the surges of power generated in the creative force fields of Being and non-Being. (Beyond Religion, p. 124) — David N. Elkins

When I was doing 'Ordinary People' and 'Taps,' I never wondered if it would have a lasting impression. I was just wanting to make the best film we could and do my part in that and be true to what my responsibilities were. — Timothy Hutton

India can progress only by the reinforcement of the women. — Abhijit Naskar

I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be — Nas

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. — Jim Rohn

Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students. — James W. Loewen

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The sooner you realize, and contribute to the fact, that companies are created to make money - not to create jobs; the sooner you will increase the security of your job - and start earning more money. — Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better. — Marian Keyes

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought ... should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. — George Orwell