Lorryn Swickard Quotes & Sayings

Monsignor ... you are asking whether I promise God chastity, poverty, and obedience. I heard what you said and my answer is no — Denis Diderot

I am a rebel, and I relate to the rebel spirit in Chenault [from the Rhum Dairy]. — Amber Heard

When bad luck comes around, your reaction to it is a combination of how bad the luck is plus how prepared your body is for the stress. — Anonymous

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. — Georg Brandes

In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid. — Madeleine L'Engle

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school. — Paul Tough

There's a slew of actors that I'd love to work with. I'd love to work with Gary Oldman. He seems like not only a solid dude and a good man, but a pretty inspired actor. — John Pyper-Ferguson

The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window. — Pau Gasol