Neasons Quotes & Sayings

I had seen how deep in nearly every West Indian, high and low, were the prejudices of race; how often these prejudices were rooted in self-contempt; and how much important action they prompted. Everyone spoke of nation and nationalism but no one was willing to surrender the priviledges or even the separateness of his group. — V.S. Naipaul

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did. — Sammy Cahn

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do. — Anna Netrebko

Unavoidably, the life of contemplation is an everyday life, a life of fidelity in small matters, small services rendered in the spirit of warmth and love which lightens every burden. The sun's brightness can from time to time (and perhaps often) be hidden in mist and cloud, but that is no reason for laying aside one's daily work. Contemplation is work, and it goes on working even when the person praying derives no apparent satisfaction from it. Contemplation is a conversation in which I am at pains not to be boring, not to say and think the same thing every day; I use my imagination and creativity to offer God at least something of myself. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Let's go to bed. Those four words differentiate a marriage from every other kind of relationship. We aren't going to find a way to agree, but let's go to bed. Not because we want to, but because we have to. We hate each other right now, but let's go to bed. It's the only one we have. Let's go to our sides, but the sides of the same bed. Let's retreat into ourselves, but together. How many conversations had ended with those four words? How many fights? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Few things are more fun than creating your own canon. — Johanna Mead

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. — John Burroughs

A number of governments, such as India and the Philippines, routinely opposed certain initiatives, preferring to elevate either solidarity among developing countries (and their collective desire to fend off criticism as unacceptable intervention) or the principle of state sovereignty over the protection of human beings. — Thomas G. Weiss

I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord. — Brigham Young

It is a deep-seated belief on the part of almost all Americans that their successes will be better assured as they help to build the success of others — Paul G. Hoffman

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. — Michael Behe

To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past. — David Whyte

You don't even know him
-No, but I know you, and you were happy
-What if he won't talk me?
-He will
-How do you know?
-Because I was watching, and he was happy, too. — Nicholas Sparks

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious. — Glenn Ficarra

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual. — Andy Garcia