Firebird Raceway Quotes & Sayings

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history ... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel ... — Jose Emilio Pacheco

Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries. — Douglas Booth

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. — Egerton Brydges

To remain lying on thorns (kanta) is called boredom (kantado). — Dada Bhagwan

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it. — Jonathan Franzen

Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830] — Andrew Jackson

embrace and fully 'excavate' our Shadow, the seeming darkness within. Only by fully honoring all aspects of our journey (every wound, every person, every trauma) can we begin to accept and eventually honor all of who we are." - JOHN POLLARD, — Jeff Brown

Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you know you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die. — Paulo Coelho

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind
but he must get there first. — John Steinbeck

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds. — Aimee Bender

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized. — Derek Landy

I understand that people don't want to smoke. Fine. Don't smoke. You don't want to go into a restaurant where there's [smoking], don't go in there. But don't impose your will - the will of a few - on the lives of many. — Mike Ditka

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more. — Rajneesh

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living. — Kaori Ozaki

I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right. — Ed Westwick