Downchild Blues Quotes & Sayings

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship. — Peter Ustinov

Perhaps being an actress means that in a situation like this people will constantly be questioning whether the emotions you display are genuine. — Dorothy Simpson

I believe all of us want to do good for our country. — Michelle Yeoh

Wisdom is the repose of the mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is that they make that description true of the movement as a whole, as if romanticism were essentially reactionary. — Frederick C. Beiser

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast. — Samuel Beckett

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew. — Ian McEwan

My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work. — Lena Dunham

Passing Proposition 8 did not stop LGBTQ couples from going to sleep that night with their partners. What it did accomplish, however, was remind the gay community once again that they are not looked at as equals, that the God of so many does not love them. — Timothy Kurek

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said. — Bill Johnson

The limitations you have and the negative things that you internalize are given to you by the world. The thing that empowers you - the possibilities - come from within. — Les Brown

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem. — William Godwin

The work you love doing overlaps with that of a Hobby (routine work done in leisure time). The essence is in untiring consummation of hard Core Work in the guise of a Hobby — Priyavrat Thareja

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses. — Peter Drucker