Euphemia Allen Quotes & Sayings

The need of the hour is to think big. The more we focus on skill, scale & speed, it will increase India's growth trajectory. — Narendra Modi

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being. — Jane Hirshfield

Chiara." Her name was a raw warning. "This isn't a good idea."
"I think it's an excellent idea." She stepped in closer to him. "There's something going on here with us. I know you feel it too. I know you don't want to feel it. I'd like to deny it, too, but I can't. — Lara Adrian

Oil kindles extraordinary emotions and hopes, since oil is above all a great temptation. It is the temptation of ease, wealth, strength, fortune, power. It is a filthy, foul-smelling liquid that squirts obligingly up into the air and falls back to earth as a rustling shower of money. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

when law is isolated and exalted into an independent system of religion, it becomes demonic. — Gerald R. McDermott

Why are women so fearful? The answer to that question lies at the root of The Cinderella Complex. (...) Many women achieve a certain amount of success in their careers and professions and still remain inwardly insecure. In fact (...), it's remarkable how many women these days retain a hidden core of self doubt while performing on the outside as if they were towers of confidence. (...)
Lack of confidence seems to follow us from childhood (...) No matter how fiercely we try to live like adults - flexible, powerful and free - that girl-child hangs on (...). The effects of such insecurity are widespread, and they result in a disturbing social phenomenon: women in general tend to function well below the level of their native abilities. For reasons that are both cultural and psychological - a system that doesn't really expect a great deal from us, in combination with our own personal fears of standing up and facing the world - women are keeping themselves down. — Colette Dowling

Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life. — Philip Roth

THE FIRST FEW WORDS of every story are always the hardest to write. It's almost as if pulling them out, putting them on paper, commits you to seeing it all through. As if once you start, you are required to finish. And how do you finish when some things never end? — Amy Harmon

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed. — Douglas Coupland

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human. — Tim Daly

I am preprogrammed, acting on impulse, dumping a vast memory into a whirling pool and somehow bringing order to it. Building a complex web. I am the spider. This is my venomous bite. I will make them see their folly. — A.L. Davroe

Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee. — Edmund Spenser

Again you will have to try it to realise that anything so stupid can be so effective. — Corinda

I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her. — Marina And The Diamonds

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work. — Nhat Hanh