Hilvanado Quotes & Sayings

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story ... is you. — Jonathan Kent

Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked. — A.S.A Harrison

If you want it, you get it! — Deyth Banger

The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their behalf. After all, elected officials are merely representing those who hold the true power (the people). — James Morcan

I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained to the utmost. — Andrew Loomis

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write. — David Rose

I do not like your name, sir," she answered.
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily. — Georgette Heyer

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His
being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us. — C.S. Lewis

It is a mortifying circumstance, which greatly perplexes many a painstaking philosopher, that nature often refuses to second his most profound and elaborate efforts; so that often after having invented one of the most ingenious and natural theories imaginable, she will have the perverseness to act directly in the teeth of his system, and flatly contradict his most favorite positions. This is a manifest and unmerited grievance, since it throws the censure of the vulgar and unlearned entirely upon the philosopher; whereas the fault is not to be ascribed to his theory, which is unquestionably correct, but to the waywardness of Dame Nature, who, with the proverbial fickleness of her sex, is continually indulging in coquetries and caprices, and seems really to take pleasure in violating all philosophic rules, and jilting the most learned and indefatigable of her adorers. — Washington Irving

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows ... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years. — Jeffrey Sachs

I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer. — Annie Lennox

She was uneasy, perturbed to her last fibre. She wanted to remain clear, with no touch on her. A wild instinct made her shrink away from any hands which might be laid on her. — D.H. Lawrence

The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid
what will compare with it? — Herman Melville