Cuaj Quotes & Sayings

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Rasheed was a fixed entity, an unchanging, finished, permanent person, and the thought of teaching him anything was as unthinkable as training a turtle to sing. Turtles cannot sing and fathers cannot change. Neither fact demands alteration. — Karim Dimechkie

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish. — Dan Millman

I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies. — A.B. Simpson

I'm not well read. — Cate Blanchett

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The Hmong have a phrase, hais cuaj txub kaum txub, which means "to speak of all kinds of things." It is often used at the beginning of an oral narrative as a way of reminding the listeners that the world is full of things that may not seem to be connected but actually are; that no event occurs in isolation; that you can miss a lot by sticking to the point; and that the storyteller is likely to be rather long-winded. — Anne Fadiman

New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest. — Janet McTeer

If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past. — Robert Harling

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters. — Michael Lehmann

I am a man, and I will be treated as such. I answer to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We have chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as well. — Glenn Beck

She hung up the phone and congratulated herself on still having editorial control over her raw emotions — Lisa Genova

33 Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself: and the wife see that she reverence her husband. If every man were as pure and as self-sacrificing as Jesus is said to have been in his relations to the Church, respect, honor and obedience from the wife might be more easily rendered. Let every man love his wife (not wives) points to monogamic marriage. It is quite natural for women to love and to honor good men, and to return a full measure of love on husbands who bestow much kindness and attention on them; but it is not easy to love those who treat us spitefully in any relation, except as mothers; their love triumphs over all shortcomings and disappointments. Occasionally conjugal love combines that of the mother. Then the kindness and the forbearance of a wife may surpass all understanding. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation. — Alexander Lebedev

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns. — Noam Chomsky

Because adults forgot how porous that border was, the ease with which you could summon monsters and find treasure in any basement. Besides, adults talked to themselves. Was that any more rational? — Mark Haddon