Espiridiona Quotes & Sayings

If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished. — Dorothea Dix

Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts. — Ramana Maharshi

Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open. — David Liss

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity. — W.S. Gilbert

He had an eternity to play that ball ... but he took too long over it. — Martin Tyler

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself. — Linda Evans

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe. — Diane Lane

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate. — David Cronenberg