Laleaua Pestrita Quotes & Sayings

I felt pure the way you feel after you vomit, kind of light and strangely holy, like having taken a sauna in hell. — Michelle Tea

Be brave when others are afraid, and afraid when others are brave. — Warren Buffett

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ. — Kevin DeYoung

I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?"
Pass," he said.
For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. "What?"
He cleared his throat. "I said, I pass."
Why?"
He turned his head and looked at me. "Because."
Because why?"
Because I just do. — Sarah Dessen

Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray. — Todd Stocker

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,
which God has seen to be good, and let be. — Henry David Thoreau

The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do. — Sam Mendes

The teachers introduced a program that explicitly trained the students to construct coherent arguments, with a focus on the connections between successive ideas. It was a radical shift from the kind of assignment that dominates high school writing instruction today, in which students are asked to write memoirs and personal reflections. The students showed dramatic improvements in their test scores in several subjects, and many more of them graduated from high school and applied to college. It's no coincidence that — Steven Pinker

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across. — John Madden