Nastasia Celeste Quotes & Sayings

For every thing that lives is Holy. — William Blake

This was the difficulty with laws and with legal language: they used language which very few people, apart from lawyers, understood. Penal Codes, then, were all very well, but she wondered whether it might not be simpler to rely on something like the Ten Commandments, which, with a bit of modernisation, seemed to give a perfectly good set of guidelines for the conduct of one's life, — Alexander McCall Smith

Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want. — Barbara Sher

You must be compelled by an inner force to read books, listen to music, and view films which serve only to send you spiraling deeper into the bottomless pit of frustration. — Gary Reilly

All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the splendor of the sun! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism ... scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity. — David Levering Lewis

The human heart will never wrinkle. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal De Sevigne

I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct. — Larry Buchanan

Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter. — Abraham Lincoln

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. — Dennis Prager