Mark Shayler Quotes & Sayings

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves. — Adrienne Rich

Prayer. That was what people did when there was nothing else left to do. — Magnus Flyte

Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another. — Sharon Salzberg

A rabbit and a cat can live together peaceably. But first the rabbit has to assert itself - charge the cat a time or two - and then they become friends. — Lisa Kleypas

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. — Maya Angelou

With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. — Ambrose Bierce

Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to do during the 'totality'. The television also told her she wouldn't age if she bought expensive creams and pills. — Guillermo Del Toro

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end. — Cees Nooteboom

To gain the respect of others, you must first think you deserve respect. And the more respect you have for yourself, the more respect others will have for you. — David J. Schwartz