Juanita Abernathy Quotes & Sayings

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand. — Suze Orman

Remember that it's only by going off the track that you get to know the country...And don't, let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy's only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvelous than the land. — E. M. Forster

We loved - and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World. — Ross Lockridge Jr.

knowing look flashed across Britney's face. "Oh, their royal highnesses Alec and Jasmin. They're pretty distracting all right, but don't waste your time. They'll never waste a thought on you or me, or pretty much anyone. — Dean Murray

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. — Murray Kempton

All languages that derive from Latin form the word "compassion" by combining the prefix meaning "with" (com-) and the root meaning "suffering" (Late Latin, passio). In other languages, Czech, Polish, German, and Swedish, for instance - this word is translated by a noun formed of an equivalent prefix combined with the word that means "feeling".
In languages that derive from Latin, "compassion" means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, we sympathize with those who suffer. Another word with approximately the same meaning, "pity", connotes a certain condescension towards the sufferer. "To take pity on a woman" means that we are better off than she, that we stoop to her level, lower ourselves.
That is why the word "compassion" generally inspires suspicion; it designates what is considered an inferior, second-rate sentiment that has little to do with love. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love. — Milan Kundera

Objects that don't exist don't exist. If we were to imagine such a thing as an object that didn't exist, it would be that thing that God hated. This is the strongest argument against the nonbeliever. If God didn't exist, he would have to hate himself, and that is obviously nonsense. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I'm shooting. — Lesli Linka Glatter

Henry keeps dealing. When all the cards have been separated, I pick up my stack and shuffle my cards again. Then I look up into Henry's eyes, and he's staring back at me, at my tears, and I see all these tiny wrinkles around his eyes-sadness wrinkles. He frowns, biting his lip. — Miranda Kenneally

In all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other ... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different. — Paulo Coelho

A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality. — Anne Bosworth Greene

The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have. — Thomas Sowell

He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing. — Rick Riordan

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living — Aga Khan III