Nikalette Quotes & Sayings

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it? — Marcus Aurelius

we're going to react the way we react to things that happen to us - but that doesn't mean we have to surrender to our instincts and give up the hope that we can think and behave more rationally and humanely. There's a reason why we no longer take pleasure throwing live cats into open fires, as both kings and peasants once did. Our culture has trained us to think this is abhorrent. That's promising. — Rick Shenkman

Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo
subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and
speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield. — Sheikh Abdullah

Actually saying OMG out loud should only happen if you're being ironic or asking your phone for directions to the Oklahoma Meerkat Gardens. — Caprice Crane

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. — David Bowie

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it. — Christoph Waltz

Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit. — Leigh Hershkovich

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say. — Bette Midler

If that was life, then it was twisted. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else. — Wendell Berry

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. — Livy

One of the worst things about losing my mother at the age I did was how very much there was to regret. Small things that stung now: all the times I'd scorned her kindness by rolling my eyes or physically recoiled in response to her touch; — Cheryl Strayed

When I was poor, I didn't know how big the world was and what a man's life could be. I was too ignorant to make my dreams big enough. — Ken Coffman

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be. — Robin Hobb

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly. — Jim Otto