Keylie Avah Quotes & Sayings

I pray for the courage
To walk naked
At any age
To wear red and purple,
To be unladylike,
Inappropriate,
Scandalous and incorrect
To the very end. — Gloria Steinem

My whole act is confession. — Shelley Berman

I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy. — LeBron James

You will admit that if it was not life it was magnificent. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was a hard-times governor. I had to steer my state through the deepest recession since the 1930s. But hey, tough times don't last and tough people do. And can I tell you that Virginians are tough people? We are tough people. — Tim Kaine

The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate. — Graydon Carter

The future was also the place where the bad stuff waited in ambush. My children were embarking on their futures in fragile vessels, and I trembled. I wanted to remove obstacles, smooth their way, I wanted to change their childhoods. I needed to be right all the time, I wanted them to listen to me, learn from my mistakes, and save themselves a lot of grief. Well, now I know I can control my tongue, my temper, and my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic, or luck. I can't make good things happen. I can't keep anybody safe. I can't influence the future and I can't fix up the past.
What a relief. — Abigail Thomas

The book of nature is like the Bible: Everyone reads into it what they want, from tolerance to intolerance, and from altruism to greed. It's good to realize, though, that if biologists never stop talking of competition, this doesn't mean they advocate it, and if they call genes selfish, this doesn't mean that genes actually are. Genes can't be any more "selfish" than a river can be "angry," or sun rays "loving." Genes are little chunks of DNA. At most, they are "self-promoting," because successful genes help their carriers spread more copies of themselves. — Frans De Waal

Tammy dips her pickles in mustard and red dirt and everyone knows why," she whispered as if someone might overhear. — Valenciya Lyons

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle. — M.H. Abrams

Abundance is possible, but only if we can imagine it and then embrace it. Will — Seth Godin

Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire. — Hannah Arendt

You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians ... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver. — Dustin Hoffman