Lyyli Silven Quotes & Sayings

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it. — William Friedkin

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence. — E.W. Kenyon

Perhaps we all reappear, perhaps all our lives are impositions one on another. — E.L. Doctorow

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom. — Baltasar Gracian

I have wanted to have a baby since I was a teenager, but it frightens me. It is much easier to have a dog. — Carmen Electra

That's a nice quote," Langston said. "Underline it and fold down the page for me, will you?" I did as instructed. — Rachel Cohn

But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of ... — Charles Fort

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not
always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once
but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have
because history has shown us that courage can be contagious
and hope can take on a life of its own. — Michelle Obama

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification - for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery. — Gustave Flaubert

Unbeknownst to me, from the beginning of freshman year Rob and Oswaldo had been drawn away from Yale via their friends on the dining hall and custodial staffs, outward into the city of New Haven. Rob considered these excursions a much-needed dose of reality, the social equivalent of an antidepressant. — Jeff Hobbs

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita. — Mahatma Gandhi