Glennen Quyn Quotes & Sayings

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class. — Mark Burnett

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks

It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad. — Mark Hyman

Stumble on joy
the phrase had knocked something loose in him. Joy: What did it feel like? Trying to remember, he was overcome by longing. He knew satisfaction, the exhilaration of success, contentment, and happiness to the extent he could identify it. But joy? — Amy Waldman

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power. — Abraham Lincoln

When Chanel peeped into James' eyes as he yelled obscenities at her, she saw power; a commander. She saw someone who was that nigga once upon a time. — Nako

-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die?
-Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you. — Christine Feehan

I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one," he said.
"Life can be difficult for everyone," she replied.
"Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper. — Patricia Grasso

The truth is," said Florence, "that the women we are - have become - are not fit to do without men, or to live with them, in the world as it was. And if we change, and they don't, there will be no help for us. — A.S. Byatt

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness. — Frederick Lenz

I'm going to be a fortune hunter!' - Lil
'I beg your pardon?' - Sophie — Katherine Woodfine

Look bravely up into the sky,
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing. — Sarah Orne Jewett