Lacota Quotes & Sayings

People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental. — Christa Miller

You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform. — David Cameron

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. — John Bartholomew Gough

The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind. — Swami Satchidananda

I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here. — Don Adams

I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle. — Aubrey Plaza

As we pulled out of Zacatecas, the air was thick with the odors of smoldering ash, bloody dust, putrefying flesh. The rich ripe smells of triumph. — James Carlos Blake

But sitting out tests that have proven essential in lifting the achievement of at-risk students is shortsighted, if not selfish. — Anonymous

I am well aware that many will accuse me of indecorum for presenting these pages to the public; for the experiences of this intelligent and much-injured woman belong to a class which some call delicate subjects, and others indelicate. This peculiar phase of Slavery has generally been kept veiled; but the public ought to be made acquainted with its monstrous features, and I willingly take the responsibility of presenting them with the veil withdrawn. I do this for the sake of my sisters in bondage, who are suffering wrongs so foul, that our ears are too delicate to listen to them. — L. Maria Child

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen. — Ellen Schreiber

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. — Joseph Addison

A hand cannot write on itself. — Peter Greenaway

Throughout one's life, time addresses man in a variety of languages: in those of innocence, love, faith, experience, history, fatigue, cynicism, guilt, decay, etc. Of those, the language of love is clearly the lingua franca. Its vocabulary absorbs all the other tongues, and its utterance gratifies a subject, however inanimate it may be. Also, by being thus uttered, a subject acquires an ecclesiastical, almost sacred denomination, echoing both the way we perceive the objects of our passions and the Good Book's suggestion as to what God is. Love is essentially an attitude maintained by the infinite toward the finite. The reversal constitutes either faith or poetry. Akhmatova's — Joseph Brodsky

When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me. — Jim Pattison