Dyana Soikie Quotes & Sayings

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, 'You must not go off and visit library ladies'? — Alexander McCall Smith

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. — Machado De Assis

If you think about it, we are always centered in the middle of chaos. It never goes away. — Melanie Iglesias

Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. — C.C. DeVille

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny. — Steven Pinker

Recall the cold
Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,
Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets
Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled
Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,
Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's
Flurrying, darkness over the human mire. — Geoffrey Hill

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet. — Francois Mauriac

You all want to be the sea. But you're not the sea, you're just a raindrop. — Stephen Kelman

I hated running, but I was beginning to develop the right mind-set: Do whatever it takes. THIS — Chris Kyle

I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life. — William Hurlbut

CEOs face this choice all the time. Should they confront their shortcomings or should they create a world where they have none? Lee Iacocca chose the latter. He surrounded himself with worshipers, exiled the critics - and quickly lost touch with where his field was going. Lee Iacocca had become a nonlearner. — Carol S. Dweck

proxy, and by this time the house is filling up at last. — Beatriz Williams

A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag. — Jane Birkin