Lucy Lu Woman Suffrage Quotes & Sayings

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. — Fernando Pessoa

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society. — Rufus Wainwright

I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program. — Condoleezza Rice

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.' — Carol Bellamy

This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of me. — Sarah Dessen

My mother had raised me on a thousand stories of girls who were saved by the Djinn, princesses rescued from towers, peasant girls rescued from poverty.
Turned out, stories were just stories.
I was on my own. — Alwyn Hamilton

Whenever, in any era, culture, or society, you encounter the phenomenon of prejudice, injustice, persecution, and blind, unreasoning hatred directed at some minority group - look for the gang that has something to gain from that persecution, look for those who have a vested interest in the destruction of these particular sacrificial victims. Invariably, you will find that the persecuted minority serves as a scapegoat for some movement that does not want the nature of its own goals to be known. — Ayn Rand

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning. — Jaggi Vasudev

If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were your provenance. Dead, you had no provenance. — Rachel Kushner

All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the memories etched onto paper. — Tahereh Mafi