Joanydka Mariel Quotes & Sayings

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top. — Jennifer Pahlka

The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes. — Milan Kundera

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do. — Pedro Martinez

We found a table. Nora said: "She's pretty."
"If you like them like that."
She grinned at me. "You got types?"
"Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws."
"And how about the red-head you wandered off with at Quinns' last night?"
"That's silly," I said. "She just wanted to show me some French etchings. — Dashiell Hammett

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era. — Jason Alexander

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment ... all of that is expressed in culture. — Wendell Pierce

Franklin was worried that his fondness for conversation and eagerness to impress made him prone to "prattling, punning and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company." Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue." So in the Junto, he began to work on his use of silence and gentle dialogue. — Walter Isaacson

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail. — Lauren Oliver

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens

Every life has peaks and shadows and times when it seems that the birds don't sing and bells don't ring. Yet in spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser, and happier as a result. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. — Watchman Nee

Love is the magnetic
and attracting force
between you and me
and the beauty,
and the world
and everything in it. — Debasish Mridha

I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone's fickle brain . . . — Brian M. Holmes