Hersleben Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't. — Barbara Kingsolver

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections. — Francis Quarles

No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right. — Sarah Dessen

Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it. — Neville Goddard

My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around. — Rob Lowe

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses. — G.I. Gurdjieff

The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of their repetition, the incantatory force of the Psalms. But they had an added power now. As a kid, the psalmist (or psalmists) had seemed remote to me, the Psalms long prayers which sometimes rose to great poetry but often had simply to be endured. For a middle-aged man, the psalmists' moods and feelings came alive. One of the voices sounded a lot like a modern New Yorker, me or people I knew: a manic-depressive type A personality sometimes up, more often down, sometimes resigned, more often pissed off, railing about his sneaky enemies and feckless friends, always bitching to the Lord about the rotten hand he'd been dealt. That good old changelessness. — Tony Hendra

I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do. — Jack Kerouac

New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets. — Debbie Ford

Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style. — Olivia Culpo

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false. — Nance O'Neil

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever. — Rivers Cuomo

I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do? — Carlos Ruiz Zafon