Lisent Quotes & Sayings

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. — David Antin

Sometimes you have to let go in order to receive; after all the universe naturally acquires balance. — Turcois Ominek

Cinder took Kai's hand and squeezed it. "There's something I want to show you. Do you think anyone would notice if we slipped away for a bit?"
He raised an eyebrow at her. "Given that we make up a full quarter of the guest list, I would be a little insulted if they didn't notice."
"It was a rhetorical question."
"Then by all means, lead the way. — Marissa Meyer

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people. — Madonna Ciccone

Women are natural leaders. They are wired to lead. — Daniel Amen

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it. — Anne Lamott

She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful. — Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction. — Kedar Joshi

I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way. — Jesy Nelson

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps. — Alfred Polgar

Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be harmful. The more self-aware you are, the less likely you are to be vulnerable to your illusions. The more aware you are, the more you can do with your life. — Robert H. Bolton

I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer camp, and high school, the famous humiliations, and the adorable things you said as a child, the familial dramas - of having a portrait of yourself, all the while making yourself out to be a little brighter, a little more deep than deep down you knew you actually were. And though I hadn't had more than three or four relationships, I already knew that each time the thrill of telling another the story of yourself wore off a little more, each time you threw yourself into it a little less, and grew more distrustful of an intimacy that always, in the end, failed to pass into true understanding. — Nicole Krauss