Lioden Quotes & Sayings

They would be shocked if they could see the other women in London: automechanics with grease in their hair, fisherwomen in from te coast with tatooed arms. — Tara Sim

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own. — Susanne Bier

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage? — Desiderius Erasmus

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed. — Sally Brampton

I don't leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments. — Rick Riordan

Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever. — Louis MacNeice

She never wore a watch, and for this she didn't need one. — Barbara Kingsolver

People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains. — Hunter S. Thompson

Do not get attached to that which is given, be attached to the Giver. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude. — Charles Caleb Colton

The point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles. — Susan Faludi

No dignity without distance. — Mason Cooley

Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves. — Yoko Ono

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength. — Benjamin Franklin