Dening Li Quotes & Sayings

In my opinion, we're here because we won the evolutionary lottery. We're here because as far as we know this is the only place we can be.
"So, basically what your sayings is", Lizzy says ... "We're here because we're here?"
"Precisely!" Dr. Grady says. — Wendy Mass

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. — James Thurber

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere. — Bob Marley

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.' — Al Yankovic

In the sacredness of pureness; a spark of divinity manifest. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Shall we lay hold upon the hope set before us in the gospel that we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is? — Ellen G. White

If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.' — Mara Wilson

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom. — Becky G

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it. — Brigitte Bardot

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food; — Elizabeth Goudge

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout
"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out. — Wilfred Owen

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life. — Saint Augustine

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear. — Charles Caleb Colton