Cattleya Labiata Quotes & Sayings

The factory system is one of the worst and cruelest things ever invented to pamper the rich at the expense of the poor. It fattens them, and melts the flesh off our bones: it clothes them in grand raiment, and bids us shiver in rags: it brings all indulgences within their reach, and kills the industrious creatures whose toil provides them. — Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Maybe they were. I don't know. Maybe they
weren't. But they felt like the real thing, and the real thing wanted to make money off me. — James Patterson

Great blessings require great commitment and determination. — Bryant McGill

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense. — Sharon Stone

Someone - Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? - once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable. — Joseph Epstein

She picked up the ballpoint pen lying on the table, and played with it for a few seconds, but then she looked at the clock again. It had done its job: in the five minutes since her last look, it had advanced five minutes' worth. — Haruki Murakami

It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation. — Daniel Dennett

If people don't know me, then I don't care what they say about me. — Michael Waltrip

God designed us to be worshipers. Everything we do is the product of worship. We are always giving our hearts to something, and if it's not God, it's something God created. All — Paul David Tripp

mimosas dug for water and women like Auntie washed — Barbara Mutch

Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes. — Dave Eggers

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun. — Steve Martin

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them — Arnold Bennett

Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile. — Ellen Ochoa