Happy Birthday Mamaw Quotes & Sayings

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there. — Nickolas Ashford

What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone's wish is to become a leader ... Let us become a real servant instead. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards. — Samuel Johnson

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy. — Margaret Atwood

What happened was pain and pleasure and shock and satisfaction all rolled into one. Pain as he withdrew and thrust over and over again past the soreness of her newly opened womanhood. Pleasure because it was more wonderful, more exhilirating, than any other sensation she had ever experienced. Shock because she had not expected such a deep and vigorous and prolonged invasion of her body. Satisfaction because now, before it was too late, he was her lover. Because she would always be able to remember him as her lover — Mary Balogh

The more reliant you are on others, the less reliant you are on yourself. — Frank Sonnenberg

If you want to rule your life with obligations to other people, that's you. — Bich Minh Nguyen

I realized that "being prepared" can sometimes be a euphemism for being scared to let go. How much we carry - whether it is on our bicycle, in our bag, or in our home - is often directly related to how little we trust in life to guide us well, and in others to help us out in a pinch. To this day, I have found that traveling light yields a far richer experience. — Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

It could be simply an accident of fate that our brains are too weak to understand themselves. Think of the lowly giraffe, for instance, whose brain is obviously far below the level required for self-understanding - yet it is remarkably similar to our brain. — Ray Kurzweil

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain

The only good thing, is that the cold wakes her up and she doesn't have to struggle to stay conscious. The bad thing, is that the numbness is fading away now, and her whole body is racked with pain. — Amy Lunderman

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny. — Allen West

A million dollars in those days was a million dollars. — Alice Munro

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. — Dan Savage

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. — Steven Wright