Kuan Yin Standing Quotes & Sayings

Elegance is like manners. You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it's another matter. — Aldo Gucci

You were able to kill him," Will said. You, a girl. That's what he meant. Like owning a vagina made me inferior in some fundamental way. — Laura Thalassa

The distance between a man and pride is the distance between himself and destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Tone is always such an important thing, and that's achieved through a multitude of people. It comes through the writing, it comes through the way it's shot, and it comes through the production design and the sound design. — Harry Treadaway

I am afraid of darkness ... even though it knows me it loves me. — Ray Fawkes

She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead. — Elizabeth Berg

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape. We try to cling to pleasure, but all we succeed in doing is making ourselves frustrated because, whatever it promises, pleasure simply cannot last. But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go. — Eknath Easwaran

As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is. — Andrew Niccol

Writing [is] a form of prayer. — Franz Kafka

America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety. — Calvin Coolidge

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible. — Salman Rushdie

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton