Jasper Beardsley Quotes & Sayings

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium. — Olivia Colman

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him. — Lucretia Mott

You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people. — David Lynch

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow. — Laozi

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. — Albert Einstein

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning. — Amy Grant

he'd grow up to be nothing like his father. Nothing like the filthy boys who wrapped women up in chains and tore their wings down to seeping stumps that leaked tears instead of blood. — Cole McCade

In short, boundaries help us keep the good in and the bad out. They guard our treasures ... — Henry Cloud

John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Continents of memory had been lost. — Alan Lightman

I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it. — Corra May Harris

I saw at least one analysis of the experiment where the author seemed to find it perfectly plausible that if a person was overcome by a violent madness he'd involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana. — Jon Ronson

I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, "What's the definition of a moderate Arab?" "I don't know." "A guy who ran out of ammunition. — Nelson DeMille