Nadezhda Aleksandrova Quotes & Sayings

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Clarisse demolished a whole building with a wrecking ball, and the maze entrance just shifted a few feet. — Rick Riordan

I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit. — Matt Bomer

When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest. — Molly Crabapple

He recognized his own fear in them, and now that he knows what it looks like he sees it everywhere - in the man who pumps gas across the street, in the teenage girls who stumble down the sidewalk, in the transvestite prostitute who steps forward and back, indecisive, at the intersection while Andres prays for the light to turn green. It is a fear that he can't get away from, and seeing it in others doesn't make him feel any safer. — Natalia Sylvester

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing. — Erica Jong

During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days. — Heidi Julavits

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam. — Thomas Hardy

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is? — Martin Bashir

Explore the power of a beautiful wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply. — Margaret Atwood

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out. — Clare Boothe Luce