Lysne Maki Quotes & Sayings

Was this stab in my heart, this rapture, really mine or had I merely read about it? For every feeling, every vicissitude of my passion, there would spring into my mind a quotation from the poets. Shakespeare or Donne or Heine had the exact phrase for it. Comforting, perhaps, but enraging too. Nothing ever seemed spontaneously my own. — Dorothy Bussy

...to bring souls to God- and God to souls. — Mother Teresa

All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has ... — Kanye West

Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote. — E.B. White

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended. — Chaim Weizmann

Oh, well. At least my blood is flowing. — Suzanne Collins

She'd thought the world was just hayfields and cornfields and and bean fields and apple orchards. The people who owned them and the people who didn't. — Marilynne Robinson

That idea of escapism ... these words could sum up my life. — Ella Maillart