Chinoiseries Birds Quotes & Sayings

The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families. — Elizabeth Warren

She took a life because someone
humiliated her, hurt her image of herself as the Valkyrie, the
stainless warrior. Exposed her weakness, which was only love. So she
avenged herself. So easy to justify, I wrote to her. It's because you
felt like a victim you did it. If you were really strong, you could
have tolerated the humiliation. — Janet Fitch

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want. — Kacey Musgraves

Nothin's real scary except in books. — Harper Lee

The life you have lived thus far is a story to be told,
The life you have yet to live is a story only you can unfold. — Kaushal B. Nanavati, MD

when they first met. It was just past the end of the third month of training, the midpoint, before they were interrupted again. Spring should have come, but this far north, and in the Low Lands in particular, the only indication of this was a sprinkle of rain mixing with the snow occasionally. Such a storm was passing through toward the end of the daily training session in the tower when a commotion could be heard in the main room down stairs. The sound alone was enough to put Myn on guard. — Joseph R. Lallo

Grief had refined her girlish prettiness, she had the clear decided looks of a woman who had seen her hopes destroyed. — Philippa Gregory

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. — Rene Thom

For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between Christians and unbelievers, or between slave and free, or between male and female. But because he has risen above the tyranny of the passions and has fixed his attention on the single nature of man, he looks on all in the same way and shows the same disposition to all. For in him there is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond not free, but Christ who 'is all, and in all' (Col. 3:11; cf. Gal. 3:28). — Maximus The Confessor

We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas. — Frederick Lenz

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. — Henry Rollins

Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck. — Chris Galford

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history. — Ernst Zundel

I remember science class
if chemistry could silence the lions laugh I'd be fine — Aesop Rock