Felita Li Quotes & Sayings

A MAN FINDS happiness so fleetingly, like the petals melting off a prairie rose. Even as you touch that feeling it dries up, leaving only the dust of that emotion, a powder of hope. — Louise Erdrich

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that. — Bill Gates

Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results. — Patricia Leavy

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. — William S. Paley

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one's own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears ... . — Arthur Koestler

Art is the fulfillment of things dreamed — Gerald Mills

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people. — Thomas Paine

I'll remember you ... I remember everyone I've lost. — Rebecca McNutt

If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically. — J.D. Salinger

Money is a kind of freedom that can be felt and heard; it is an inestimable treasure for a man entirely deprived of true liberty. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He pulled forth and waggled a leash.

A leash.

To go around her neck. — Eve Langlais

Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with. — Johnny Weir

POPPY: Don't just agree with me because it's my birthday, and I'm special, and you feel inferior under the shadow of my specialness. — Bijou Hunter

Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character. — Ben Affleck

It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. — Arthur Gordon Webster