Laylonie Dowdell Quotes & Sayings

There are those of poor spirit and there are those of great spirit. None are without it but the flame flickers pretty low in some cases. The majority of people seem to be nothing but a little flickering flame. You know that when you match them against an individual who is all fire, all radiance. Those in whom the flame of the spirit runs high are extraordinary examples of human beings. — Henry Miller

And I'm a little mean to people who are dumb. And most people are dumb. — Joe Kelly

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content. — Utada Hikaru

Sometimes I remember the way I used to be," she said as we sat across the table from each other, "and I'm surprised nobody ever smacked me."
I took a long sip of my coffee so that I would not have to answer her. I wanted to tell her that she ought to be more generous to the girl she used to be, if not out of respect for herself, then out of respect for me, or more specifically for the boy I used to be, who loved that girl, after all. — Kevin Brockmeier

The first time Raffaele ever saw Adelina, it was a stormy-wracked night that changed her life and, indeed, the world. He recalls looking down from the window in his Dalia lodging to see a girl with silver-bright hair, conjuring an illusion of darkness such that he had never seen. He remembers the day she first came to his chambers in Estenzia, when Enzo was still alive and she was still innocent, and the way she looked up at him with her uncertain, damaged gaze. He remembers her test, and what he said to Enzo that night. How long ago that had been. How he had judged her wrongly. — Marie Lu

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean. — Michelangelo Antonioni

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval. — C.S. Lewis

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself. — Chris Matakas

We would be well on the way to perfection if we could weed out one vice from ourselves each year. — Thomas A Kempis

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. — Thomas Carlyle

It's terrible to lie in chains,
To rot in dungeon deep,
But it's still worse, when you are free
To sleep, and sleep, and sleep. — Taras Shevchenko

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action. — Leo Tolstoy

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart. — Hermann Hesse

The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there. — Jim Butcher