Ninonana Quotes & Sayings

Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have your way with it. This wrestling, sinewy and particular as its wrestler, enlarges us as we read our way into her life with its incisive insights and explorations. Can one wrestle meditatively? This author has learned the art and we are the benefactors. — Luci Shaw

commentators often pronounce with unerring confidence that a particular phrase is a pre-Pauline formula, when often the matter is far from clear. — Simon J. Gathercole

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there. — Kirsty Coventry

Here Hillary Clinton is probably the most qualified person based on experience to ever run for president of the United States, and then this guy gets into the race, Bernie Sanders, and suddenly everybody goes, "Look at him. He's a real contender - " — Christy Clark

to be all the way across the country. "Dad was on the air in the middle of a radio show broadcast live from Hollywood — James Kaplan

Truth is always straightforward. — Sophocles

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts. — Jo Brand

That pretty much describes the life of a foreign man living in Bangkok. Except instead of pressing a lever, he's digging into his wallet for a few more baht. The same principle is at work, though. The same mindless obedience to their pleasure centers. Yet if pleasure were the path to happiness then the farang, the foreigner, in Thailand would achieve bliss, and so would the Canadian rats. Yet neither has. Happiness is more than animal pleasure. — Eric Weiner

It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup. — Audrey Magee

But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before. — Jane Smiley

Similarly, when you lose yourconsciousness, when you go to sleep at night or when you're anesthetized, youdon't really think that you're really going to be losing your mind. — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

In fact, her whole demeanor is calmer. It's creepy. It's like she's had Botox of the soul. — Sophie Kinsella

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. — Douglas Adams

You're all terrified of young people. We remind you of what it was like to have ideals, faith, freedom. We remind you of the losses you've taken as you've grown cynical, numb, disenchanted, compromising the life you imagined. — Stephanie Danler

When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race! — Harriet Beecher Stowe