Drusilla Imports Quotes & Sayings

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible. If you keep all your ideas, emotions and your nonsense aside, maybe you can take a step, move one inch. One little step existentially is worth more than all the scriptures that you can read on the planet. One little step is far more important than all the philosophies that you can spout. — Jaggi Vasudev

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it ... I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends. — George Bernard Shaw

Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. — Rama Swami

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me. — Jennifer Egan

The mind is the chisel, matter is the stone and life is the sculpture. Make sure you use your chisel wisely — Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen

People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, 'Hi, Chelsea.' — Chelsea Clinton

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life. — Sarah Polley

Though monetary compensation may never add up, teachers can rest assured that they are important. — Monica Johnson

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Nobody lends money to a corpse. — Alice Yi-Li Yeh

Since you've been gone, Piper, I've become as bad with the sighing as Mom. Sometimes it's the part of a sob that I jsut can't hold back. Sometimes the sigh's more like blowing out birthday candles to make a wish. And sometimes I do it hoping that it'll make you appear - even for just one instant - to laugh at me and tell me to stop. — Kate Karyus Quinn