Judy Ann Santos Quotes & Sayings

Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare. — Gregory David Roberts

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather. — Susan Sontag

Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form. — Jerome Kagan

Hey, we live each day, start each day, as if we had an endless number stretching out ahead of us. We don't, but that's how one has to face the day, right? I see an analogy with writing fiction: the story at hand probably won't come off well, and even if it does, it probably won't get published, but if it does there won't be any payment for it - and even if there is, almost nobody will read it, and most who do won't understand or like it. But you go ahead and write the story. What choices do you have? There's always silence, but that won't do for me." - Gordon Weaver (who is suddenly my hero, even though I don't know who he is). — Gordon Weaver

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom. — Bill Wyman

You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together.
He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time. — Erlend Loe

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity — Charles Hugh Smith

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now. — Bo Sanchez

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. — Hillary Clinton

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong. — Maisie Williams

The minute you make a mistake - that's improvisation! — Barry Harris

It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me. — Misty Copeland

I had always imagined being in love as some grand, sweeping epic. A prince on a white horse. Dashing. — Allison Parr