Halloween 2007 Quotes & Sayings

If you cut a tree down make sure you also cut the roots for if not a new tree will come — Hamza Akhtar

You see, people like Ben Jelloun have the life of a writer in exile, and this gives them a certain - here Farouq paused, struggling to find the right word - it gives them a certain poeticity, can I say this, in the eyes of the West. To be a writer in exile is a great thing. But what is exile now, when everyone goes and comes freely? — Teju Cole

Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force. — Brian D'Ambrosio

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil. — James Madison

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. — Benjamin Disraeli

But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince? — Mandy Hubbard

Success doesn't come from summoning help from the Force, but from taking control of it and generating the power from within yourself. — James Luceno

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject. — Blaise Pascal

I want to live till I die. No more, no less. — Eddie Izzard

As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away, or think that we are psycho. But what if that's not true? Have you ever stopped to think that? What if it's like there's a beautiful little bird in our hearts and we're too afraid to let anyone see it in there? What's wrong with letting anyone know that there's a bird in your chest? Maybe there are lots of wrong ones, but maybe there's one that's just for you - the one who won't laugh or run away when he sees that little bird. After all, it's just a pretty bird! — C. JoyBell C.

It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job. — Amy Ryan

Imagination is the power of attraction, when you want something you have to imagine it, to attract the thing to you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. — Betty Friedan

The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life. — Franz Alexander