Laldan Quotes & Sayings

Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose to flout the rules, but they don't question their parents' right to make those rules. — The Mirror Of Maybe

Luckily I stayed in shape due to wrestling. — Bill Goldberg

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness. — Plato

The elements of trial and error, similar to earth and sky, and fire and water, delineates the constituent modules of our lives. Living robustly includes more failures than successes. We achieve adeptness to living by exhibiting a willingness to make good faith mistakes and learn from each misadventure. Every effort that fails to achieve our expected result is understandably frustrating. The fact is that without ideas and dreams and devoid of occasional crash landings, a person can never hope to achieve any worthy acts to temper resounding personal disappointment. Meaningful success is ultimately defined when a person dies, when an entire life's work devoted to performing passionate and compassionate enterprises can be judge as a whole unit. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Do you guys have sunscreen?" I ask.
"No," Scottie says. "Do we have water?"
"Did you bring any?" Alex asks.
"No," I say.
Alex pops her head up. "Did you bring snacks for us?"
"We can walk to town."
How do mothers manage to bring everything a child could need? — Kaui Hart Hemmings

I trust men only because I trust God. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air. — Tim Cahill

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this. — Marat Safin

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is. — Steven Hatfill

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist. — Don DeLillo

Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were. — Larry McMurtry

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained. — James Loeb