Donyelle Roberts Quotes & Sayings

I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn't freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared. — Eric G. Wilson

I like to think of myself as a humanitarian. — Seal

Since then I've come to believe you don't always have to use things you love, and it's not always so practical to be so practical. Now that I've grown up, I realize that all that delicious dilettantism pays its way as much as any degree in medicine or engineering, by making me remember every day - whenever I pick up a book or watch the Science Channel or try to read a map of Asia for no particular reason - that life is amazing and there is no end to the wonder of it. — Barbara Sher

Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.' — Ziad Doueiri

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. — Adam Smith

Miss Elizabeth Mapp might have been forty, and she had taken advantage of this opportunity by being just a year or two older. Her face was of high vivid colour and was corrugated by chronic rage and curiosity; but these vivifying emotions had preserved to her an astonishing activity of mind and body, which fully accounted for the comparative adolescence with which she would have been credited anywhere except in the charming little town which she had inhabited so long. Anger and the gravest suspicions about everybody had kept her young and on the boil. — E.F. Benson

Anna glanced over at her father and Mac added, Sometimes it's like that. Some boys want to date other boys, and some girls like other girls best. As long as people are happy, it all works out. — Kaje Harper

DONNA: She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart? — Aaron Sorkin

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. — Bill Gates

That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do not believe, and we shall never again believe. — Adolf Von Harnack

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic. — Caroline Dhavernas

That I was in love with Niall Stella was only a secret in theory. He knew it, I knew it. — Christina Lauren

That's the beauty and the curse of the 'engrafted word'... it all comes down to interpretation. — Amy Marie

Not needing the money puts me in a magical place because I can say no. I like the idea of having good movies made or having no movies made. — Neil Gaiman

Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals. — Pearl Zhu