Deidrick Stanley Quotes & Sayings

I think all experience is, in some way, shape or form, filtered down to help you, in your present moment. With Shakespeare, you're trying to act with a fairly archaic language, although in certain aspects, it's deeply modern. — Joseph Fiennes

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do. — Hyrum W. Smith

Public behavior is merely private character writ large. — Stephen Covey

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things. — Wendell Berry

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. — Xavier Becerra

I love Martin Amis. — Maura Tierney

Married love, therefore, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the matter of responsible parenthood, which today, rightly enough, is much insisted upon, but which at the same time should be rightly understood. Thus, we do well to consider responsible parenthood in the light of its varied legitimate and interrelated aspects. — Pope Paul VI

I see that you are highly defensive." ...
Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude. — Shirley Hazzard

This whole situation is so fucked up. This game. This thing between us. It's exhausting. God, I'm just so sick of it and tired of hating Mr. Black one minute to wanting a future with you the next. A future I know will never happen. — Ella Dominguez

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. — Mason Cooley

The missingness of the missing. We know what that feels like. Every endeavor, every kiss, every stab in the heart, every letter home, every leaving, is a ransack of what's in front of us in the service of what's lost. — Jeanette Winterson

Nobody told me love was warm. Such warmth - I seemed to remember it, it seemed like something forgotten by me since I was born. All the fires are here, and the warmth of my mother's bed long ago and the deep heat of the sun. — Lesley Lokko