Nonas Quotes & Sayings

I stayed in therapy long enough to know that nothing that happened to me was my fault. I didn't do anything to invite it or deserve it. But that just makes it worse. Maybe I don't blame myself for what happened, but when they tell you that something was completely and utterly random, they're also telling you something else. That nothing you do matters. It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and act the right way and follow all the rules, because evil will find you anyway. Evil's resourceful that way ... They tell you it was random to make you feel blameless. But all I hear them telling me is that I have no control, and if I have no control, then I'm powerless. I would have preferred being blamed. — Katja Millay

I've always jumped on sentiment - and here I am being more sentimental than anybody. What idiots girls are! I've always thought so. I suppose I shall sleep with his photograph under my pillow, and dream about him all night. It's dreadful to feel you've been false to your principles. — Agatha Christie

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. — Desmond Tutu

I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life. — J.D. Salinger

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover. — Kim Edwards

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system. — Kenneth C. Griffin

... no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals. — Tania Aebi

Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs. — Kenneth Eade

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated. — Stephen Covey

We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities. — David Price

Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved. — Pope Francis

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. — Charles Saatchi

Thus did Jack Easy make the best use that he could of his strength, and become, as it were, the champion and security — Frederick Marryat

Don't find love, let it find you. It's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall, you just do. — Taylor Swift

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me. — Al Pacino