Lispenard Livingston Quotes & Sayings

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared. — Martha Brooks

I'm going to be okay," Sadie promised as I left.
"I know you are," I said, except they were just empty hospital words, the kind that you wish were true becuase the alternative is too painful to bear. — Robyn Schneider

It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy. — Joel Edgerton

About five years ago, I fainted from exhaustion. I hit my head on my desk. I broke my cheekbone and got four stitches on my right eye. It started me on this journey of rediscovering sleep and balance and integrating my life. I think everyone should stop and reassess their lives before you hit your head on your desk. — Arianna Huffington

Look at me. Home boy wore combat boots to the beach. I know you don't want to call that your boyfriend, I know you don't. — Lauren Conrad

Everything in life worth achieving requires practice. In fact, life itself is nothing more than one long practice session, an endless effort of refining our motions. When the proper mechanics of practice are understood, the task of learning something new becomes a stress-free experience of joy and calmness, a process which settles all areas in your life and promotes proper perspective on all of life's difficulties. — Thomas M. Sterner

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. — Mercedes McCambridge

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars — Timothy Leary

My inner peace remains in spite of any outward thing. Only insofar as I remain in harmony can I draw others into harmony, and so much more harmony is needed before the world can find peace. — Peace Pilgrim

To be sure, all translation is interpretation. ... Be that as it may, functional-equivalence translations, which presume that ambiguity, multivalence, and contradiction are by definition not part of the Bible, take far more creative and interpretive license than formal ones in eradicating those features. In so doing, they too often try to make the Bible into something it's not. — Timothy Beal

It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me. — Jonny Greenwood

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints
Of tentative and half-soiled tints — Edith Sitwell

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring. — Emily James Smith Putnam

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. — Salman Rushdie

I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand. — Cornel West