Gdybym Mia Quotes & Sayings

It is quite important to withdraw from all unnecessary cares and business, as far as compatible with the duties of one's state of life, in order to enter the second mansion. — Teresa Of Avila

1944 - Exploring London in wartime, a city with stiff upper lip, gritted teeth, clenched fists, makes you realize that Paris is a bit of whore.

Every day and every night for weeks now, London has been bleeding and hiding its wounds with impressive dignity. A 'don't show off' attitude prevails. From time to time a sputtering doodle-bug (a VI) shatters the torpor of the overcast sky. One second, sometimes two ... at most three ... of silence. Visualizing that fat cigar with shark fins as it stops dead, sways, idiotically tips over, then goes into a vertical dive. And explodes. Usually it's an entire building that's destroyed.

Apparently the Civil Defense rescue teams observe a very strict rule of discretion and restraint. You never see any panic. In this impassive city detachment is the expression of panic. — Jacques Yonnet

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. — Madeleine L'Engle

Don't ever spend more than three weeks apart. Two and a half weeks, maybe three, was the longest we ever did. — Alyson Hannigan

I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture. — Edwidge Danticat

How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal. — E. M. Forster

Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject atoms to any specified influences such as light or heat, magnetic fields or electric currents. — Otto Robert Frisch

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard. — Melissa Etheridge

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years. — Thomas Frank

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model. — Ricki-Lee Coulter

the bridesmaid's hand in his, "Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding." The — Edgar Rice Burroughs

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. — Eleanor Roosevelt