Lissy Sweet Quotes & Sayings

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. — Alvin Toffler

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time. — Ben Gibbard

It is too late for me to feel paternal now. Whatever inside me that might once have been capable of nurturing my child had long since been corrupted or burned away. Years of betrayal and slaughter have seen to that. — Oliver Bowden

Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps. — C. Kennedy

Somedays you have to write even when you think you're putting out crap. You just need to tell yourself that you'll fix the problems later, and by then, they might not even be "problems" anymore. The challenge of writing a novel has always been to let loose with a beautifully flawed first draft, and to constantly fight belief you're chiseling words in stone each time you type. — Christopher Rice

The best way I know to define privilege is the ongoing benefits of past successful exercises of power. — Andy Crouch

If you'd only let me come by myself, none of this would have happened. Having you around makes everything worse.'
She buried her head under her pillow. 'Stop it! you're so cold! You're heartless, you little robot!' The pillow muffled her words, but they still stung.
'I feel things,' I said. 'I'm not a robot!' I stamped my foot and screamed. Then I burst into tears. I touched the wet little drops and held them toward her. 'See, I'm not a robot. This is proof. — Natalie Standiford

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman

A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it. — Michele Bachmann

As we age, it's as if the calcium seeps out of our skeletons and into our tissues. — Atul Gawande

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure. — Jose Bergamin

Capitalists control the machineries. They create difficulties to the workers. Consequently rationalism , which has to lead the way for peaceful life to all, has resulted in causing poverty and worries to the people because of dominating forces — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

... I've seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives don't matter. That may be because we are too many. Architecture and application form, modern life says that with so many of us we can best survive by ignoring identity and acting as it individual differences do not exist. Maybe the narcissism academics condemn in creative writers is but a last reaching for a kind of personal survival. Anyway, as a sound psychoanalyst once remarked to me dryly, narcissism is difficult to avoid. When we are told in dozens of insidious ways that our lives don't matter, we may be forced to insist, often far too loudly, that they do. — Richard Hugo