Lauralai Quotes & Sayings

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give. — Saint Augustine

I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue. — Leonid Brezhnev

During the last 17 years ... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years. — Wendell Berry

Like my soul is wearing thin. — Suzanne Young

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it. — Quentin Tarantino

She said further that this Geneva blood drinker was tragically in love with Lestat. — Anne Rice

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in. — James Wolcott

Because history is not the background - history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times! — Philip Roth

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there. — Augusten Burroughs

Wooster: Wait a second; this white mess jacket is brand new.
Jeeves: I assumed it had got into your wardrobe by mistake, sir, or else it had been placed there by your enemies. — P.G. Wodehouse

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Every time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. — Alice Sebold

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school. — Mark Kennedy

All stories begin before they start and never, ever finish. — Patrick Ness