Lady Macbeth Controlling Quotes & Sayings

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. — Michel De Montaigne

Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty. — Melody Beattie

I'm not one of those people who think that cancer is some kind of jousting match. People live or die based on good medicine, good luck, and the grace of God. The people that die from it did not fail. The people who live will die another day. — Paul Acampora

Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp. — Craig Brown

Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it. — Anton Du Beke

Out in this profane city,
sometimes sidewalks
seem the only cement that connects us,
pressed by the sacred strangers
we will never touch. — B.J. Ward

God's grace is the strength for every good deed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People are confusing. They say one thing and mean the other. — Stephanie Perkins

there is something still more appalling than the ingratitude of daughters who have cast off their old father and wish that he were dead, and that is a rivalry between two sisters. — Honore De Balzac

We do not always feel joyful, but we are always to count it joy. — A.B. Simpson

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. — Adam Clayton

I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset. — Yoshihiko Noda

If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on. — Craig Johnson