Lisie Burgos Quotes & Sayings

If you don't manage the qualities within your own life, someone else will manage them for you." ~Ian Breck — Ian Breck

Poststructuralism ... is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning. — Naomi Wolf

The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will be no government dole which can get us through the pearly gates. Nor will anybody go into the celestial kingdom who wants to go there on the works of someone else. Every man must go through on his own merits. We might just as well learn this here and now. — Marion G. Romney

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope. — Andre Leon Talley

I think most are too afraid to see the truth. — Morgan Rhodes

ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you — Chip Heath

The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air. — Michel Faber

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more. — Princess Diana

We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

When it meows, one scarcely hears it ... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies. — Charles Baudelaire

Was Juliet a better poet than Romeo? If Juliet found out about Rosaline, would she still love Romeo? Should Juliet have given Paris a chance? Why is love so dangerous for Juliet? Why are Juliet's parents so blind? Was the Nurse Juliet's friend or enemy? Would Juliet have killed herself if she had been twenty-five years old instead of thirteen? — Anita Diamant

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer. — Paulo Coelho

Aborigines believe in two forms of time. Two parallel streams of activity. One is the daily objective activity to which you and I are confined. The other is an infinite spiritual cycle called the "dreamtime," more real than reality itself. Whatever happens in the dreamtime establishes the values, symbols, and laws of Aboriginal society. Some people of unusual spiritual powers have contact with the dreamtime. — Peter Weir

I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged. — Gary Johnson