Covrigii Ingrasa Quotes & Sayings

A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable. — R. Scott Bakker

I never had innocence. — Bijou Phillips

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person. — Andrew Denton

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love. — Rachel Kushner

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. — Angie Dickinson

But - " yelped Twizbang, "Greydor will eat us! — Richard Due

We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback. — Nate Berkus

If you believe that life should be full of adventure , then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too. — Kathleen Flinn

We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be made to work. The people elect, but the party machines nominate, and the party machines to be effective must spend a great deal of money. Somebody has to give it to them, and that somebody, whether it be an individual, a financial group, a trade union or what have you, expects some consideration in return. What I and people of my kind expect is to be allowed to live our lives in decent privacy. I own newspapers, but I don't like them. I regard them as a constant menace to whatever privacy we have left. Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo, and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on its circulation and you know what the circulation depends on. — Raymond Chandler

It was impossible, I said in response to his question, to give the reasons why the marriage had ended: among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious. What was real, in the end, was the loss of the house, which had become the geographical location for things that had gone absent and which represented, I supposed, the hope that they might one day return. To move from the house was to declare, in a way, that we had stopped waiting; — Rachel Cusk

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies. — Paul Keating

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning. — Llewellyn Rockwell

What an imprecise science was medicine. It was more an art than was fiction. — Graham Moore

I used to go to open mics in New York when I was starting out, and it was mostly just people who wanted an audience to look at them for eight minutes on a stage. — Kristen Schaal