Harshana Volga Quotes & Sayings

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have. — Agnes Macphail

Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference."
The thing is ... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well). — Meg Cabot

Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there. — Djimon Hounsou

I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on that journey since my first election 25 years ago: Loyalty to the party, service to our country and a determination to always do my best for the people. They are principles that still guide me. — Brian Cowen

Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully. — Sharon Salzberg

Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love ... — Alistair Begg

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe. — Robin Marantz Henig

This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet. — Julian Huxley

we come to the origin of the universe through some kind of deduction from the things that we see, or we look to the supernatural revelation that God gives us, which antedates the material universe as we know it. — R.C. Sproul

You lose a certain kind of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know what you know about kindness. It's a defeat, in a way. — Rob Sheffield

She stood like a knight in a painting, her head bowed and her sword at her side, blood spattering her gear, her hair half-torn out of its bindings, floating down around her. — Cassandra Clare

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free. — Julia Ward Howe

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. — Liz Phair

For poor taste in husbands, her judgment rivaled Anne Boleyn's. — Meredith Duran