Dawnelle Hilliard Quotes & Sayings

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. — Samuel Smiles

And he smiled when he saw me, as if just the sight of me had improved his day. — Ruth Reichl

Let me get this straight," Nina said. "You haven't kissed me because the setting isn't suitably romantic?"
"This isn't about romance . A proper kiss, a proper courtship. There's a way these things should be done."
"For proper thieves?" The corners of her beautiful mouth curled and for a moment he was afraid she would laugh at him, but she simply shook her head and drew even nearer. Her body was the barest breath from his now. The need to close that scrap of distance was maddening.
"The first day you showed up at my house for this proper courtship, I would have cornered you in the pantry," she said. — Leigh Bardugo

A boy stepping into the street and opening an umbrella for a girl keeping dry in the doorway. — Jenny Offill

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. — Billy Bragg

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor. — Randeep Hooda

There are people who drive luxury cars, but have only second- or third-rate sofas in their homes. I put little trust in such people. — Haruki Murakami

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. — Gloria Swanson

I think the world is becoming more global. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. — Sung Kang

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people. — Chuck Palahniuk

Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993). — Roger Wolcott Sperry

(Every word they said now would be true.) Do say something, she thought, wishing only to hear his voice. For the shadow, the thing folding them in was beginning, she felt, to close round her again. Say anything, she begged, looking at him, as if for help. — Virginia Woolf

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents. — Hunter S. Thompson