Nanny Diaries Anthropology Quotes & Sayings

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay. — George MacDonald

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death. — Paul Theroux

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength. — Paul The Apostle

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there. — Herman Gorter

Life should be good - Life should be very, very good - and the only duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people. — Jackie French

Actions are worth more than thousands of words. — Timi Nadela

We talk as if living a sanctified life were the most uncertain and insecure thing we could do. Yet it is the most secure thing possible, because it has Almighty God in and behind it. The most dangerous and unsure thing is to try to live without God. — Oswald Chambers

The strange thing about adulthood, when you're single, is that it's possible to go for fairly extended periods without facing blatant sin against. Sure there was plenty of sin against God but with such infrequent consequence - it was easy to self-congratulate on how much our relationship owed to my 'righteousness,' generosity, and enlightened theological views. Though for the past twenty months or so I'd been hearing a pastor who's constant theme was grace, it didn't hit home until I faced this proof of what the Bible says God considers depravity. — Anna Broadway

Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too. — Mark Lawrence

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. — D.H. Lawrence

The age of the book is almost gone. — George Steiner

Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

How easily the mind can be turned to hate from a place of fear. — Christie Golden

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser. — Mark Wahlberg

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that. — Layne Staley