Countessstarella Quotes & Sayings

Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves. — Christian D. Larson

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. — Bruce Jackson

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock. — Andrew Pyper

It is better not to call anything to anybody - just remain centered in yourself. Look at the world and drop judgments, and you will have such a pure atmosphere around you - no appreciation, no condemnation, just a pure watchfulness. This watchfulness, I call meditation. — Rajneesh

As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this. — Huston Smith

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. — Steven Spielberg

wealth in the rich countries is currently divided into two approximately equal (or comparable) parts: real estate and financial assets. — Thomas Piketty

So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude. — S.A. Tawks

What a mind that woman must have! he said with admiration. It was the hushed tone of a jeweller studying the largest and finest diamond he will ever see. — Frances Hardinge

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China. — Jo Ann Emerson

We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen. — Nicolas Sarkozy

The silence stretches between us. Words aren't so easy to come by, after his admission. It takes him a while to dig some up. — Courtney Summers

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. — Anne Lamott

No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next. — Jeaniene Frost