Lucies Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps the best way to understand any situation is to put yourself in the other person's role. Can you imagine what it would be like to raise YOU? — Peter Burwash

I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that. — Carrie Fisher

My days of torment were over, but the damage was done. I conflated the bullies and my bathroom accidents with an inchoate sense that something was wrong with me. I broadcast my sense of otherness through my slumped posture, downcast expression, and extreme timidity. Kids at school called weird so often that after a while I believed them. I hid myself behind a curtain of tangled hair. — Alysia Abbott

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause. — Edward Hirsch

The de Luce coat of arms: per bend sinister sable and argent, two lucies haurient counterchanged. The crest, the moon in her detriment, and the motto "Dare Lucem." "The moon in her detriment" was a moon eclipsed, and the "lucies," of course, were silver and black luces, or pikes, a double pun on the name de Luce. "Haurient" meant simply that the pikes were standing on their fishy tails. — Alan Bradley

Do not run from a battle with dragons; rather turn and face it. For even if you die, you die in glory. — J.J. Thompson

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. — Billy Graham

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist. — Ad Reinhardt

Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island's flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci - a paragon of charisma and corruption. — Philip Gourevitch

I live every day full of gratitude for the body in which I live, treating it with great love and respect. It allows me to enjoy life, experiencing everything that I perceive, exploring the events that hook my attention, modifying what I can change, and letting go of whatever I cannot. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You are spiky spring
Humming Summer, wings that
beat
Back ghosts of winter. — Laura Ruby

THE ART OF PEACE is to fulfill that which is lacking. — Morihei Ueshiba

If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker. — Damian Lewis

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus. — William Wilberforce

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them. — William Bernbach

Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening. — Phil Plait