Birdenbire Siir Quotes & Sayings

yet religion itself, any religion, keeps a person on the right path. Not the fear of God, but upholding your own sense of honour and obeying your own conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behaviour and weigh up the rights and wrongs. They would automatically try to do better at the start of each new day and, after a while, would certainly accomplish a great deal. Everyone is welcome to this prescription; it costs nothing and is definitely useful. Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that 'a quiet conscience gives you strength'! — Anne Frank

The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society. — Keith Stanfield

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness. — Katharine Hepburn

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates. — Anthony Michael Hall

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James Baldwin

I hoped to burn out, through Hella, my image of Giovanni and the reality of his touch - I hoped to drive out fire with fire. — James Baldwin

Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book can really give your brain a workout, because you spend so much time wondering what incredibly dumb thing the author will say next. — Joe Queenan

Two excellent crime fiction writers I'm currently reading...

Laura Wilson and Andrew Taylor — Roger Boutwell

Zeal should not outrun discretion. — Aesop

And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Change Is for the Worse' should he ever find time to write it: Gold knew that the most advanced and penultimate stage of a civilization was attained when chaos masqueraded as order, and he knew we were already there. — Joseph Heller

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform. I was not just keen on that, it was during that time, during the school period then from an early age, that I began to dream about acting. — George Ogilvie

If I ever get rich, I'm going to buy you an elephant. — Marco