Cecily Earnest Quotes & Sayings

Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place — Ben Richards

You need a story to displace a story. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity. — John Hume

I never planned to be a professional artist - I just want to be a sustainable artist. I guess they're the same thing if you look at them from a different angle. — Courtney Barnett

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead. — Nikita Khrushchev

Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it. — Randeep Hooda

Don't you want it?"
"Want what?"
"The engagement ring."
"Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?" Boy, this was such a big transgression I would have to write it in block letters on its own page, and show it to our children when they grew up as an example of how not to do something. — Linda Howard

Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. — Pema Chodron

Yet, fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well, and not my master's debtor. — William Shakespeare

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave. — Sheryl Crow

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do. — Sonny Perdue

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows — Timothy Keller

Or to be naked with her friend in bed An hour or more, not meaning any harm? — William Shakespeare

I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one. — Oscar Wilde

I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to. — Maya Angelou