Lola Senya Quotes & Sayings

De Sade says you must commit crimes. In using the word crime we're adopting the consensus term, though among ourselves we would not describe any of our actions as such. We need the universally valid norm to get a kick out of our own extremeness. We are monsters, even if we disguise ourselves as ordinary people. We are the children of ordinary people, but we are not content with that. Inwardly we are consumed with wickedness, outwardly we are grammar school pupils. — Elfriede Jelinek

What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and love. Don't misuse them, Daphne. — Robin Lee Hatcher

All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks
"AS IS." It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I'm far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me "AS IS" and I'll take you that way, too. — Steve Goodier

This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit; for we cannot exist long without the destruction of other animal or vegetable beings either in their mature or embryon state. Such is the condition of mortality, that the first law of nature is 'eat, or be eaten.' Hence for the preservation of our existence we may be supposed to have a natural right to kill those brute creatures, which we want to eat, or which want to eat us; but to destroy even insects wantonly shows an unreflecting mind, or a depraved heart. — Erasmus Darwin

She went to the public school that the three youngest girls attended and in halting English told the teacher that the children must be encouraged to speak only English; they were not to use a German word or phrase ever. In that way, she protected them against their father. She grieved when her children had to leave school after the sixth grade and go out working. She grieved when they married no-account men. She wept when they gave birth to daughters, knowing that to be born a woman meant a life of humble hardship. Each — Betty Smith

Family! ... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death. — Margaret Mahy

No, thank you," he flashed that grin of his. "I've been wondering what the lair of a poetry-inclined psychologist looks like. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party. — Sting

What did disappear - or, at least, what faded dramatically - was the willingness of the free world to take a firm stand in support of the oppressed. — Garry Kasparov

In all kinds of composition, there are two things necessary: first, to have something to say; second, to say it. — J. Willis Westlake

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. — Dale Carnegie

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. — Spencer Silver

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader. — John C. Maxwell

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business. — Rafael Nadal

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance. — Filippo Brunelleschi