I'm Not A 2nd Option Quotes & Sayings

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too. — Lisa Gardner

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl. — Jackie Gleason

Great men never look at a person's exterior. They think of his heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience. — Bernard Malamud

All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future. — Patrick Dixon

Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation. — Ramana Maharshi

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did. — Michael Bloomberg

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun. — Seth Shostak

Have you ever been the only person of your own colour or ethnicity in a large group or gathering? It has been said that there are two kinds of white people: those who have never found themselves in a situation where the majority of people around them are not white, and those who have been the only white person in the room. At that moment, for the first time perhaps, they discover what it is really like for the other people in their society, and, metaphorically, for the rest of the world outside the west: to be from a minority, to live as the person who is always in the margins, to be the person who never qualifies as the norm, the person who is not authorized to speak. — Robert J.C. Young

I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness. — David Simon

I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb. — Sylvia Plath

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! — Edgar Allan Poe

Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic. — John Lanchester

I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come. — Gary Sinise