Esssssss Quotes & Sayings

What a rope of sand we are without a leader ... — Marjorie Bowen

I am a mistake of nature, a mad beast. — Andrei Chikatilo

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll. — Eddie Van Halen

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It's human nature. — Dan Pearce

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emotions!
A. This is one of the worst illusions we have. We think that negative emotions are produced by circumstances, whereas all negative emotions are in us, inside us. This is a very important point. We always think our negative emotions are produced by the fault of other people or by the fault of circumstances. We always think that. Our negative emotions are in ourselves and are produced by ourselves. There is absolutely not a single unavoidable reason why somebody else's action or some circumstance should produce a negative emotion in me. It is only my weakness. No negative emotion can be produced by external causes if we do not want it. We have negative emotions because we permit them, justify them, explain them by external causes, and in this way we do not struggle with them. — P.D. Ouspensky

Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R.F.S.). — Stieg Larsson

I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers. — Olesya Rulin

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. — Patti Smith

The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother, too, Pearl's errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Your most important task is not to achieve a goal but it is to improve yourself every day. — Debasish Mridha

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes. — Katha Pollitt

One of the questions we need to ask, if we are to have a future, she says, is "Where did we cause less damage to ourselves, to our environment, and to our animal kin?" One answer is: when we were nomadic. "It is when we settled that we became strangers in a strange land, and wandering took on the quality of banishment. — Robyn Davidson

Kaltain Rompier unleashed her shadowfire upon them all.
This was not the ghost of shadowfire they had made her kill with - the reason why they had first approached her, lied to her when they invited her to that glass castle - but the real thing. The fire she had harbored since magic had returned - golden flame turned to black
The room became cinders. — Sarah J. Maas