Quotes & Sayings About Coming From Rags To Riches

He laughed. A strained, ha, ha, ha, I may die of this laugh. — Tessa Dare

Referring to a mask as a law of nature is another way of saying that it cannot be escaped or transcended; there is no getting beyond or beneath it. But when Deleuze describes the intention of interpretation, we find it is 'an art of piercing masks, of discovering the one that masks himself, why he does it and the point of keeping up the mask while it is being reshaped'." The Nietzschean-inspired disavowal of ideology is based on the claim that critique is only an ongoing series of interpretations where masks give way to nothing but more of their own. Deleuze's instruction is to pierce masks so that motivations and strategies can be discovered, whether they belong to subjects or to a particular manifestation of power. The obvious implication is that the appearance of a mask obscures other qualities that are potentially more fundamental than just another mask. — John Grant

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. — Emily Greene Balch

What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances. — Charlotte Bronte

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance. — Trevor Dunn

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes. — Chi McBride

Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke. — Toni Morrison

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling — Bill Belichick