Hiding Our Inner Desires Quotes & Sayings

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky. — Pablo Picasso

Dreams, my mother always told me, represend part of our unconsciousness
the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world. From Breena quoting her mother in Bitter Frost — Kailin Gow

For success is for the ignorant
That is what makes it original — Priscilla Koranteng

Very strange!" he said to himself, vacantly. "It's like a scene in a novel - it's like nothing in real life." He — Wilkie Collins

When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the main focus. I play a lot and my children play. Both my sons - my daughter's still too young really - have surpassed me with their music skills, which is wildly irritating. — Paul Bettany

Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time. — John Kessel

People think what's in the US today is capitalism. It's not even close to capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have a central bank, capitalism doesn't have taxes, it doesn't have regulations; capitalism is just voluntary transactions. What they have in the US today I call crapitalism. But it's sad that so many people are confused and they think, 'Oh that's free markets in the US', when it's one of the least free market countries on earth. — Jeff Berwick

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer. — Margot Fonteyn

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve. — Joseph De Maistre

Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Everybody seems to know my secrets before I know them myself — Suzanne Collins

Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears. — Stephen King

All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves. — Nenia Campbell

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book. — Sophie Kinsella

A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury. — Lionel Shriver

Jesus Christ seeks to save lost souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The waters of her emotions ran deep, and he was only privy to the splashes on the surface. — Travis Luedke

Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made. — Camilla Gibb

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons. — Jerome Isaac Friedman