Ellen Foster By Kaye Gibbons Quotes & Sayings

What did Sept. 11 do? It took me from 60-70 percent name recognition as mayor of New York to about 90 percent. Of course it had an impact. But it's not the only reason I was successful. — Rudy Giuliani

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk — Jane Austen

Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem. — Ann Leckie

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well. — Carrie Fisher

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way. — Stephen Covey

No man can given anybody his freedom. — Stokely Carmichael

Will not the Lord hear my prayers and listen to my cries as soon as he ever did to theirs [the ancient saints'] if I come to him in the manner they did? — Joseph Smith Jr.

No. I'm only here for one reason. He glanced over at me. — Erin McCarthy

I've been labeled all my life. — Corey Feldman

I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup. — Luis Suarez

He was the bandage - and, now, the wound. — Aly Martinez

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself. — Vanessa Paradis

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus. — William Wilberforce

Is true freedom even possible? It certainly is in a momentary sense, as any mature practitioner of meditation knows, and those moments can increase in both number and duration with practice. Therefore, I see no reason why a person couldn't perfectly banish the illusion of the self. However, just the ability to meditate - to rest as consciousness for a few moments prior to the arising of the next thought - can offer a profound relief from mental suffering. — Sam Harris

Like imperfect sleep which, instead of giving more strength to the head, doth but leave it the more exhausted, the result of mere operations of the imagination is but to weaken the soul. Instead of nourishment and energy she reaps only lassitude and disgust: whereas a genuine heavenly vision yields to her a harvest of ineffable spiritual riches, and an admirable renewal of bodily strength. I alleged these reasons to those who so often accused my visions of being the work of the enemy of mankind and the sport of my imagination ... . I showed them the jewels which the divine hand had left with me: - they were my actual dispositions. — William James