Niala Blackman Quotes & Sayings

I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time. — Lesley Gore

The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to make it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger
violence, vandalism, disrespect
of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates. — James P. Comer

Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or national pride. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You have no idea
How much you do for mankind
When you love God unconditionally
Even for a fleeting moment. — Sri Chinmoy

In a gradually unsubtlizing progression, within a couple more sales-quarters most consumers were now using masks so undeniably better-looking on videophones than their real faces were in person, transmitting to one another such horrendously skewed and enhanced masked images of themselves, that enormous psychosocial stress began to result, large numbers of phone-users suddenly reluctant to leave home and interface personally with people who, they feared, were now habituated to seeing their far-better-looking masked selves on the phone and would on seeing them in person suffer (so went the callers' phobia) the same illusion-shattering aesthetic disappointment that, e.g., certain women who always wear makeup give people the first time they ever see them without makeup. — David Foster Wallace

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking. — Richard Rohr

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. — G.K. Chesterton

Finally, I thought, I had reached the future that was no future. — Alice Sebold

We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two ... We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anaemic. — Lee Kuan Yew

There's only one that is a little stronger than me: Messi. All the others are behind me. — Mario Balotelli

Give up control to gain control. — George Knudson

I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy. — Zooey Deschanel

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters. — Gillian Flynn

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order. — Ralph Waldo Emerson