C000021a Quotes & Sayings

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence. — Siobhan Davies

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay. — Bruce Springsteen

Nothing bled quite like regret. — Jewel E. Ann

I was not alone in any of this. I was only a little torn, but not broken. "Yeah," I said. "I'll be okay." And I was brave. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises. — Lao-Tzu

This ain't right, you know. She's the one who ought to rule, fair enough. And you used magic to help her this far, and that's all right. But it stops right here. It's up to her what happens next. You can't make things right by magic. You can only stop making them wrong."
Mrs. Gogol pulled herself up to her full, impressive height. "Who's you to say what I can and can't do here?"
"We're her godmothers," said Granny.
"That's right," said Nanny Ogg.
"We've got a wand, too," said Magrat.
"But you hate godmothers, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs. Gogol.
"We're the other kind," said Granny. "We're the kind that gives people what they know they really need, not what we think they ought to want. — Terry Pratchett

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on. — Lynne Rae Perkins

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end. — Mose Allison

I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place. — Neve Campbell

Right before doing an exercise, take a few deep breaths to prime your body with oxygen and to get rid of some extra carbon dioxide. Then, breathe out as you contract your muscles and start the exercise. Focus on breathing regularly as you continue doing the exercise. If the exercise is so intense that you can't breathe regularly, take shallow breaths instead. — Raymond Wu

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy. — Gregory Bateson