Lelde Smits Quotes & Sayings

If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave. — Kerry Greenwood

She lifts the white gown. "The prince loves white." Her fingers caress the satin. "He had your betrothal gown made just for you."
( ... ) Anger boils under my skin. "Then he can wear it," I snap. — Trisha Wolfe

The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault — Brandon Mull

You're scared?'
He shook his head. 'Floppy's scared.'
'What's Floppy scared of?'
'The man in the closet — Julie Kagawa

So, to do right by a Gothic tale, let's be frank, requires that the author be a militant romantic who relates the action of his narratives in dreamy and more than usually emotive language. Hence, the well-known grandiose rhetoric of the Gothic tale, which may be understood by the sympathetic reader as not just an inflatable raft on which the imagination floats at its leisure upon waves of bombast, but also as the sails of the Gothic artist's soul filling up with the winds of ecstatic hysteria. So it's hard to tell someone how to write the Gothic tale, since one really has to be born to the task. Too bad. — Thomas Ligotti

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate ... — Meredith L. Young-Sowers

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. — Rollo May

With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato. — Karl Popper

Hopper's paintings are full of women like her; women who appear to be in the grips of a loneliness that has to do with gender and unattainable standards of appearance, and that gets increasingly toxic and strangulating with age. — Olivia Laing

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. — Patrick Macnee

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it. — Jack Canfield